pitiful
/ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩/ 形容词 C1中文： 可怜、很少
- So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. · Scotland has a pitiful climate.
- Eliciting contempt.
- Of an amount or number: very small. · A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
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“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through, I am afraid, is pitiful.”
Come, let me see the list of the pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia’s folly.”
Noirtier the unwelcome meal that sustains his pitiful existence.
“Thus I shall rejoice when Mademoiselle Eugénie perceives I am but a pitiful atom, with scarcely as many hundred thousand francs as she has millions.” Monte Cristo smiled.
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