Words similar to pitiful

Example sentences for: pitiful

How can you use “pitiful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(Some of the freshest lines in the book come with his description of Oliver Stone's film The Doors , which "offers an inadvertent parody, a portrait of an amateur oracle's excruciatingly dull metamorphosis into a pitiful, drunken slob.")
Here comes Miles, authoritatively quoting Diodorus, the Greek historian, who recorded (60-30BC) that “innocent women even swelled the ranks of pitiful slaves whose forced labour built the pyramids:
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.
When the '60s veterans try to play some pitiful music, they are quickly drowned out by the frantic brainstorming of their corporate descendants.