Get to know Pitifully better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Pitifully meaning
In a pitiful manner.
Using Pitifully
- The main meaning on this page is: In a pitiful manner.
Context around Pitifully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pitifully
- In this selection, "pitifully" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, guesswork, fumbled, living, little, weak and scant stand out and add context to how "pitifully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include albeit still pitifully few of and are living pitifully in a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pitifully" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pitifully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Star Tribune has posted a pitifully inadequate online. (9 words)
Throughout this trial, lots of suggestions, lots of innuendos, lots of guesswork - pitifully little evidence. (15 words)
Compare that to the pitifully low maximum £73.10 a week jobseekers allowance paid here. (15 words)
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. (47 words)
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. (40 words)
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. (35 words)
Example sentences (10)
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.