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Adjective: piteous  pi-tee-us
  1. Deserving or inciting pity
    "piteous appeals for help";
    - hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

See also: unfortunate

Encyclopedia: Piteous

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