Words similar to pity

Example sentences for: pity

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

It has been suggested to me that this name has lost a great deal of its popularity for girls due to its diminutive, Les , too easily confused with lez (for lesbian ), which seems a pity.
It is a pity that he made so many unwarranted assumptions about the meanings of words he did not understand, could not divine from the context, or failed to find elsewhere.
Instead we are urged to walk a mile in their shoes, which I believe is a metaphor for empathy, or at least an understanding based on something more profound than arm's-length pity.
You hoped Walters was feeling some pity for the life thereby wasted, was suppressing a grandmotherly impulse to shut this child up.
Pity the poor dentist who abjures cosmetic dentistry but vigorously protects patients' teeth.