piteously

副词 adv.

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.
    — He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.

词形变化

more piteously comparative most piteously superlative

词源

From Middle English piteuously, pitously; equivalent to piteous + -ly.
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