How to Use pitiable in a Sentence

pitiable

adjective

• Those who love spicy food might find these behaviors pitiable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• The rest of the film puts his madness on plain and pitiable display.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 12 Oct. 2019
• Such a pitiable figure should pose no threat to the social order.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• Part of that is Doug, who is too pitiable to make a compelling center.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
• Robinette is a model of dignity in a role that in lesser hands might seem pitiable.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Tanya is too pitiable to die in a comedy; Mark is too vapid to go in a drama.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 July 2021
• Their offensive line gave Jackson a clean pocket against a pitiable pass rush.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• As pathetic and pitiable as Gloria is, Blethyn runs away with the whole movie.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
• Still, none of this makes Cunanan comprehensible or, when all is said and done, pitiable.
  — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Cesira’s circumstances may be pitiable, but her character isn’t.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• But when that friend overdosed, the user was suddenly no longer a pitiable drug addict but an evil murderer.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• The inhabitants came to the rescue, and treated the pitiable survivors with kindness.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• What other actor could make that moment pitiable, even understandable?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
• What the Bachelorette needs to be above all is a woman the audience wants to root for—pitiable, but not pathetic.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 10 July 2018
• Heck, even polar bears, once held out as the pitiable victims of global warming, aren’t being driven to extinction.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 22 Dec. 2020
• We’re shown that being alone is never a choice but rather is unfortunate, depressing, shameful, or pitiable.
  — Stefanie Groner, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2021
• Their neighbors dismissed it as so much pitiable Soviet nostalgia.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Like Norma herself, that assumption is both arrogant and pitiable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• That grit and those guts made what one of Smith’s long-ago coaches in San Francisco said about him both pitiable and laughable.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• Wilson puts most of his aw-shucks charm to the side to play this spacey wannabe, portraying Eli instead with a pitiable whine or some far-out detachment.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• Northern Ireland is treated like a foreign country in mainland news reports, but an obscure and pitiable one.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Feb. 2018
• That and the general reprieve from being viewed by society as either threatening or pitiable.
  — Sloane Crosley, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• But as with most of Binoche’s vulnerable characters, Tereza is never pitiable.
  — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The once-pitiable Rosen completed pass after pass, sparking a furious rally.
  — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The dogs will walk back and forth along the circumference of their pitiable circle, compulsively, like death-row inmates pacing their cells.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• What a joy it's been watching Colin Farrell discover his gift for playing sad, foolish, and pitiable men.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 27 Oct. 2022
• Admittedly, Oldman’s Mank — like the real one — is a pitiable figure.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• Currently, e-bikes are trapped in the weird smear between pathetic, loser bicycles and pitiable, low-end motorbikes.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022
• This bizarre development renders Maladie more of a distraction than a bona fide threat — destructive yet pitiable, too.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2021
• There’ll also be a dunk tank with a pitiable fan in pinstripes being plunged every time someone with the accuracy of Kelly hits the target.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018