PITIFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitifully mean? 

• PITIFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb PITIFULLY has 1 sense:

1. to a pitiful degree

  Familiarity information: PITIFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITIFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a pitiful degree

Context example:

wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women

Pertainym:

pitiful (inspiring mixed contempt and pity)

 Context examples 

She nodded her head and smiled, and he felt, somehow, that her smile was tolerant, pitifully tolerant.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She shook her head and gazed at me pitifully.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Oh, Ham!” she exclaimed, still weeping pitifully, “I am not so good a girl as I ought to be! I know I have not the thankful heart, sometimes, I ought to have!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)