piteous in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

piteous in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for piteous in the English»French Dictionary

piteous Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be a piteous sight
être un spectacle déchirant
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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And without going into reasons for the slack state of these young men, he indicates that they are piteous and merit some sympathy too.
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And all their piteous platitudes of pain.
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Is there anything quite as piteous as a defeated boxer?
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The honourable gentleman says we must close our ears to the piteous cries of the oppressed, because otherwise we will be endangered...
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In other cases, a piteous confusion sets in.
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From time to time, we may still hear his piteous groans.
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Their piteous sense of entitlement and acute bigotry should yield to the influences of education, humaneness and culture.
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She fingered the thread and slipped it through her lips with gratifying immersion, all the piteous miseries of her life seemingly summoned in her wiry hands.
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She is so piteous in her misery.
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This is why this piteous blog's about practicalities, not theorems.
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