pitisome

English

Alternative forms

• pitysome

Etymology

From pity +‎ -some.

Adjective

pitisome (comparative more pitisome, superlative most pitisome)

1. Characterised or marked by pitifulness; piteous

   Synonyms: pitiful, saddening; see also Thesaurus:lamentable

   • 1856, The Night Watch: Or, Social Life in the South, page 344:

     Lor', Miss Moggy, you'd think dat man had been married all de days of his life time, he look so lonesome and pitisome like.

   • 1923, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, page 246:

     For a day he did scant else but enhowl himself to a pitisome hoarseness.

   • 2006, Pat Mattaini Mestern, No Choice But Freedom:

     “Perhaps, Husband, the division by classes will have no place in this country. That would be pitisome, for it has taken centuries to form our traditions.”

   • 2013, Clancy Sigal, Weekend in Dinlock:

     Davie is loud with pitisome self-justification.

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