| The wind picked up and washed over him, and he shivered and whimpered pitifully. |
| Try to understand what people are talking about so as not to make pitifully uninformed comments. |
| The fence, now electrified no longer and partially nonexistent, sagged pitifully. |
| The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters. |
| Wearing a life vest, Ma took a boat to inspect the pitifully parched riverbeds of the funnel-shaped dam at the reservoir. |
| Left to its own devices, it was pitifully unable to mount a serious military operation. |
