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Example sentences for: pitiful

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Most consumers, studies have shown, believe themselves impervious to the pitiful ploys of advertising.
Kristol draws just short of calling the United States "a helpless, pitiful giant" as he extracts this moral from India's tests: "The signal has gone out that the U.S. is not serious" about policing rogue nations.
The Daily Star of Bangladesh paints the Iraqi crisis as a pitiful Iraq against a ruthless aggressor in an editorial Sunday, saying, " 'Defiance' of a despoiled country resonates with a total back-to-the-wall desperation."
It accused Starr of treating "the pitiful lie of a seducer" as a state crime that could, in theory, lead to a year's imprisonment.
On the one hand, she's the pitiful victim of our hypocrisy and our unnecessary shame.