verb
definition
To feel pity for (someone or something).
example
You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.
definition
To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
Examples of pitied in a Sentence
Sofi pitied the beautiful woman as a stricken look crossed her features.
For a moment, Deidre pitied them.
His father caressed and pitied him.
In that moment, Jule pitied her.
Jonah has pitied the tree, and should not God have pity on so great a city ?
For the first time in her life, Deidre pitied the death dealers.
There was no good reason for treating him so harshly, and his state was much pitied.
But still he pitied Prince Andrew to the point of tears and sympathized with his wounded pride, and the more he pitied his friend the more did he think with contempt and even with disgust of that Natasha who had just passed him in the ballroom with such a look of cold dignity.
Katie smiled, amused despite the rain, thunder and bugs. The woman was as unique as she'd claimed to be, at once easily entertained and melancholy. Katie couldn't quite keep up with Deidre's odd mixture of emotions, but she pitied the woman, who seemed more lost in her own world than anything.
As much as she knew she shouldn't, Jenn pitied the young god.
Their experience was that they as a family no longer evoked positive feelings but were instead pitied.
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
One hasn't the heart to scold her, she is so much to be pitied.
Wynn pitied her but wasn't about to ask any favors of the demon lord that didn't involve Wynn leaving Hell – and Deidre – behind.
Richard had her put to public penance, but the people pitied her for her loveliness and womanly patience; her husband was dead, and now in poverty and disgrace she became a prisoner in London.
Wynn pitied her but wasn't about to ask any favors of the demon lord that didn't involve Wynn leaving Hell – and Deidre – behind.
She is very nice and kind and, above all, she's much to be pitied.
Prince Vasili, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied.
Jule sensed a great deal of turmoil behind his calm features and pitied the man.
Gabriel pitied even the foulest of demonesses, if Darkyn took her for his mate.
She felt his pain once more at taking away everything Rhyn had and pitied the assassin, despite her predicament.
This prince was wandering in the deserts of Africa, pursued by his implacable enemies, but everywhere protected and concealed by the desert tribes, who pitied his misfortunes and respected his illustrious origin.
It was Dolokhov marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that moment marching with the company.
Dean pitied his wife, knowing the grueling trip that lay before her over the next several hours, not knowing what awaited her landing.
Giovanni pitied Katie, and yet, Rhyn suspected he knew more about the woman than either the man before him or Hannah.
Jenn pitied him but couldn't bring herself to speak, not when she, too, barely understood what was going on.