PITIABLE
\pˈɪtɪəbə͡l], \pˈɪtɪəbəl], \p_ˈɪ_t_ɪ__ə_b_əl]\
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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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
By Princeton University
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Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
By Oddity Software
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Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
By Noah Webster.
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Pitiably.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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