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What does pitiful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pitiful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
  2. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
  3. Of an amount or number: very small.
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Morphine and laudanum addicts were usually seen as pitiful unfortunates living failed lives as a result of their habits.
A pitiful thousand men left from our large expedition stood up to join me, almost none woundless.
So as an act of pitiful rebellion against the fact that I even have to be at work, I'm refusing to turn the office lights on.
If that is true, then what a truly pitiful bunch of lazy, coffee house analysts we are.
It was a pitiful thing to find fortunate, but at that point she would grab and claw at anything that could possibly brighten the atmosphere.
Cue whinge after whinge after pitiful whinge about how fat she thinks she is, and how much weight she must have put on since entering the house.

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