pity
/ˈpɪti/ verbo C2En español: tener lástima, compadecer, apiadar, conmiserar
- To feel pity for (someone or something). · You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.
- To feel contempt for someone who is hopelessly inferior.
- To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
He/she/it pities · Pasado pitied · Participio pasado pitied · Forma en -ing pitying
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I cannot help thinking it would have been a great pity to have served him that trick you were planning yesterday.”
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
“Oh,” cried the Farmer with his last breath, “I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel.”
My broken limb should excite your pity.
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