Pitifully

Throughout this trial, lots of suggestions, lots of innuendos, lots of guesswork - pitifully little evidence.

I’m bound to say that all of us, Jewish or not, are entitled to think that the party’s pitifully weak response to Daniel Kawczynski’s provocation means it doesn’t take the problem of anti-Semitism any more seriously than Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour did.

As with so many people who die homeless on the streets and come from the care system, the details are pitifully scant.

But, admits Katherine Maher – who has headed up the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that runs Wikipedia) since early 2016 – the strategy suffers one major flaw: women have been pitifully slow to join the party.

Compare that to the pitifully low maximum £73.10 a week jobseekers allowance paid here.

He wrote a will and to “finish it” but fumbled pitifully with a bottle of pills.

The Star Tribune has posted a pitifully inadequate online.

Meanwhile, the increasing number – albeit still pitifully few – of radiocarbon dates for the primary use of brochs (as opposed to their later, secondary use) still suggests that most of the towers were built in the 1st centuries BC and AD.

Only pitifully small pieces of land are gained, about the size of a football field, which are often lost again later.

Socrates says in the Republic that people who take the sun-lit world of the senses to be good and real are living pitifully in a den of evil and ignorance.