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What does piteous mean?

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Adjective
  1. pitiful; provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
  2. (obsolete) pious; devout
  3. (obsolete) compassionate; tender
  4. (obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful
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When, in 1704, the news of Blenheim oozed out, the king's grief was piteous to see.
He was crying into his lovely black feathers a piteous sound that tore at Star's heart.
As the end neared, she lapsed into a semi-consciousness of raving and then piteous wailing.
So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold.
The songbirds had returned, but their calls sounded ever so plaintive and piteous.
He'd long forgotten most of the words of this piteous lament, but that was no obstacle.

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