Antonym: pitilessly. Similar words: pitiful, dutifully, beautiful, plentiful, bountiful, fully, awfully, carefully. Meaning: ['pɪtɪflɪ] 
adv. to a pitiful degree.
adv. to a pitiful degree. 
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1) The dog was whining pitifully.
2) The dog was pitifully thin.
3) State help for the mentally handicapped is pitifully inadequate.
4) The fee is pitifully low.
5) A cat was miaowing pitifully outside the door.
6) His wages were pitifully inadequate for the needs of his growing family.
7) His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.
8) The kitten mewed pitifully.
9) The cat miaowed pitifully.
10) She was pitifully thin.
11) She pitifully looked at me,(http://sentencedict.com/pitifully.html) with the eyes in which the hot tears stood.
12) The child was pitifully thin.
13) The nose, dried out, was pitifully thin and pinched.
14) These efforts would seem pitifully inadequate to a modern social reformer.
15) As she worked, adding to the pitifully small pile, she could hear Travis talking on the radio behind her.
16) And toy factories with pitifully inadequate fire precautions stay open.
17) Despite their pitifully limited numbers they threw down an inspiring challenge to the might of the autocratic regime.
18) The same pitifully small group of students was shifted from classroom to classroom, with costume changes in between.
19) Wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women.
20) In reality, the Kuomintang reactionaries are pitifully stupid.
21) Pitifully, I can not together again with you.
22) If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
23) There are more women in positions of power-though their numbers overall are still pitifully few.
24) The liberal looks at welfare payments and sees them as pitifully low.
25) So one perennial idea getting a second wind is the campaign to raise the pitifully low current minimum wage.
26) Mr Browning, she saw, was as robust as his wife was pitifully weak.
27) The most needed fields, social service and nursing, have attracted pitifully few students.
28) The government sponsored Meadowell Initiative makes noises in the north of the estate - but does pitifully little, painfully slowly.
29) Dawn revealed that the rough seas had once again snapped the hogging trusses which sagged pitifully on each side of the raft.
30) She was trying to straighten an anorak around Sonja's pitifully slight frame.
More similar words: pitiful, dutifully, beautiful, plentiful, bountiful, fully, awfully, carefully, ruefully, joyfully, wistfully, fretfully, gleefully, tactfully, fearfully, forcefully, hopefully, mindfully, balefully, powerfully, thankfully, boastfully, scornfully, peacefully, gracefully, gratefully, skillfully, cheerfully, doubtfully, faithfully.