Pit·i·ful a.
  1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
     The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.   --James v. 11.
  2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
     A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible.   --Spenser.
  3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
     That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.   --Shak.
  Syn: -- Despicable; mean; paltry. See Contemptible.
  -- Pit*i*ful*ly, adv. -- Pit*i*ful*ness, n.
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  pitifully
       adv : to a pitiful degree; "wages were pitifully low, particularly
             the wages of women"