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单词 piteousness
释义
piteousness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɪt.i.əs.nəs/us
/ˈpɪt̬.i.əs.nəs/
thequalityofcausingyou tofeelsadnessandsympathy:
可怜
Theybeggedwithprofessionalandremorselesspiteousness.他们带着装出来的可怜在祈求，丝毫没有真正的感情。
It wasn't thehysteriaof herwailingthat got to me so much as the piteousness.令我心生同情的不是她歇斯底里的哭号而是她那可怜的样子。
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  • Hiswifepleaded, with all theaffectionand piteousness oflove.
  • She willprobablydiewithheroicpiteousness.
  • Igazedup at him withwonderandwildpiteousness.
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(Definition ofpiteousnessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpiteousness

piteousness
There was a painfulpiteousnessin her tone.
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The disgrace appealed to her with tragicpiteousness; and the father's unforgiveness acted upon her like a chill repulse.
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She still looked at him with the samepiteousness.
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Her voice was agitated almost to tears, and she had dropped her work and clasped her hands together with apiteousnessof appeal.
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She looked at his averted face with a blankpiteousnesswhich revealed all her secret.
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There was somepiteousnessin her voice and eyes.
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Then she looked up in his face, and a girlishpiteousnesscame into her own.
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She did not even speak, but sat looking at her hands, absorbed in thepiteousnessof that thought.
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The longing andpiteousnessin her tone touched him.
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It seemed to him that her mouth worked with an oddpiteousness; and before going on she put up a crooked little jeweled hand and dashed away a tear.
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