Word Finder - pity

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A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

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I can't feel any pity towards the gang, who got injured while attempting to break into a flat.

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Something regrettable.

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It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.

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Piety.

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To feel pity for (someone or something).

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You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.

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To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

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Short form of what a pity.

Your pity is a weakness.

I always thought he felt more pity than love for the old lady.

One must pity the animals too.

He could, however, pity the woman whose hand was cut off.

She was worried about him, and he was touched by the idea she took pity on him when she herself was in more danger than he was.

Darian couldn't help but pity her as well; her eyes were circled with black and puffy, as if she'd been crying recently.

I guess I pity you.

She began to cry and a still greater sense of pity, tenderness, and love welled up in Pierre.

I don't pity you, Carmen.

Not now, she couldn't let him see her cry - couldn't let him feel pity for her.

If you have no pity on me, have some for the children.

Taking pity on the sad flowers, she bought a bunch before continuing on her journey home.

Carmen felt drawn to him — not by pity, but by his strength.

I pity those who did not see it.

The countess and Sonya cried from pity for Natasha and because he was no more.

Would revealing your secret to him make him pity you or drive him away?

We're still working with Hannah.  She's in denial about everything.  I almost pity the girl.

She rode through the city that bustled with ill- clad warriors and few others, unable to help feeling both disgust and pity for them.

Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give him what consolation I can.

The look of pity on Darcie's face was more than Cassie could bear.

She'd taken pity on both men who lost their own families and ended up feeling more than she ever wanted to again.

Still, one must have pity on a young man in misfortune.

He had little pity for humanity in general.

If she cried, if she pleaded - he would pity her.

On these facts becoming known, a feeling of pity for the pope became widespread; and the opinion of the Roman Catholic world gradually turned against the emperor while he was fighting to preserve his supremacy in Germany.

God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them.

Why would I pity him?

Guilt and pity trickled through her as she thought of her friend.

No one took pity on a young man in a mask the way they did a cute little boy with dirty hands and huge, innocent eyes.

The pity of it is that he should have squandered his powers in a futile attempt to create an entirely new category of literature.

I pity the poor husband, that little officer who gives himself the airs of a monarch.

She was torn between anger and pity for Gabriel's mate right now.

For the first time in his life, he felt something akin to pity for Kris.

Pity for the boy increased as Taran studied the bruises on the youth's arms and face.

What a pity you weren't at the Arkharovs' on Thursday.

But you know, my dear boy, it's a pity you got excited!

These numbers are valuable as an exhibition not so much of events as of the feelings of the Parisian people; they are adorned, moreover, by the erudition, the wit and the genius of the author, but they are disfigured, not only by the most biting personalities and the defence and even advocacy of the excesses of the mob, but by the entire absence of the forgiveness and pity for which the writer was afterwards so eloquently to plead.

And many other stories are told of this man's great love and pity for the timid creatures which lived in the fields and woods.

Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him!

But besides this feeling of respect, Pfuel evoked pity in Prince Andrew.

Pity these wounded men as one might, it was evident that if they were given one cart there would be no reason to refuse another, or all the carts and one's own carriages as well.

What a pity I've missed Uncle!

Nicholas immediately recognized Princess Mary not so much by the profile he saw under her bonnet as by the feeling of solicitude, timidity, and pity that immediately overcame him.

But when she heard of Prince Andrew's presence in their house, despite her sincere pity for him and for Natasha, she was seized by a joyful and superstitious feeling that God did not intend her to be separated from Nicholas.

She never cried from pain or vexation, but always from sorrow or pity, and when she wept her radiant eyes acquired an irresistible charm.

He immediately recalled his forced confession, and besought all Christian men " to pray for him, so that his tears might secure the pity of the Almighty."

A pity you were not there--what would you have said?

Deidre felt no pity for him, despite the circumstances.

Andre was the only gentleman in this outfit and the only to take pity on her.