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Pitiful Pronunciation

Pronounce Pitiful as P IY T IY F UW L.

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    Pitiful phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'pitiful'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of pitiful: /pɪtɪful/
    • Modern IPA representation of pitiful: /pɪtɪfʊl/

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    List of meaning for pitiful

    producing pity

    pathetic, pitiable, pitiful(adj)

    inspiring mixed contempt and pity

    "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

    deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry(adj)

    bad; unfortunate

    "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

    hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched(adj)

    deserving or inciting pity

    "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

    deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy)

    that piece of junk is a pitiful excuse for a car

    arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust

    a pitiful coward

    deserving of one's pity

    pitiful orphans who had lost everything in the war

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    pitiful in sentence

    1. The rueful dog looked pitiful after it chewed up its blanket.

    2. The home team’s pitiful performance caused them to lose the game by forty points.

    3. Because the homeless man looked pitiful and hungry, I gave him my last dollar.

    4. Our pitiful mayor and his debauchee brother spent all of the town’s money on their self-indulgent life style.

    5. As soon as Kate heard the stray cat’s pitiful cries, she took fresh water and food outside.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term pitiful

    When you will be sailing happily in the blue ocean, thinking that life is all fun. Precisely at that moment still, you will be attracted by Siren's lethal skill. Never forget that Siren is the creature of the Fey, who will ruthlessly steal your heart away. Don't ever dare to look into her beautiful eyes, you will be left alone with your sad sighs and pitiful cries. In the journey of life, Siren's call comes with a price to pay, for the poor sailor who loses his life to that beautiful creature of the Fey.

    – Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

    PSU students are pitiful because they're Pennsylvania State University students - period, i apologize for the Pennsylvania State University tweets.

    – Keith Olbermann

    It’s a pitiful truth that women are still regularly shamed or made to feel awkward for performing the fundamental act of feeding their babies wherever and whenever they need to (of course, they’re also still shamed for not being able or choosing not to breastfeed, which I equally maddening, exposure to breastfeeding in the media is one of the things we can do to counter this, so I love this cover on many levels.

    – Justine Cullen

    Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.

    – Longinus

    The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

    – David Mamet

    This is a sick statement, a pitiful statement, increased deforestation and burning are the result of his anti-environmental policy.

    – Marcio Astrini

    It is so sad to hear that Nikolai Nikolaevich Vasiliev has died. We all find it hard that he’s not alive. Friends write to us, but many letters don’t reach us… We remember the old days, visiting our hospital. I guess no one goes to the graves of our injured ones now nearly everyone was taken away from Tsarskoe. Do you remember Lukyanov he was so pitiful and sweet, always playing with our bracelets like a baby. His visiting card was in my album, but unfortunately the album was left behind at Tsarskoe. Just now I’m writing in our bedroom. On the writing desk are pictures of our beloved hospital…All in all, the times we went to visit the hospital were awfully good. We often reminisce about our visits to the hospital, the evening chats on the telephone, and everything, everything….

    – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

    This was by all accounts a double murder with a pitiful feigned suicide attempt by the defendant.

    – Assistant District Attorney Melissa Woodward

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