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Перевод: pitiable speek pitiable


[прилагательное]
жалкий; несчастный; бедненький; ничтожный


Тезаурус:

  1. His condition was, said Dr. Prior, pitiable.
  2. The elders of these families - often in a pitiable condition themselves since, being old, they suffer most from being refugees - are thrown into utter confusion at their powerlessness.
  3. "Doubting Thomases have been elevated from the pitiable to the theologically correct.
  4. Her few originalities are so naive as to be laughable (such as her picture of the persons of the Trinity sitting on different-coloured cushions) or so deranged as to be pitiable.
  5. James had done training under Dr John Conolly at Hanwell, the Middlesex County pauper lunatic asylum, and to him the insane were the most pitiable of all human flotsam.
  6. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste (for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night), and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen, by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment.
  7. The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom: there was treating and return treating, and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence; and, to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk, this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition, and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way, - he was for kissing all round.
  8. She had returned since his death and was now drifting, "sinking lower, cadging, getting drink where possible - a pitiable object.
  9. The pitiable Mr Pygling, who jerked through the little town with a stick - it turned out he had Parkinson's disease - doffed his check cap to Jane and even held the door open for her when they ran into each other at a shop until she opened the house to the public (having restored it sufficiently) on Sundays.
  10. There came from him a smell, half-musty, half disagreeably sweet, of old clothes and incense, overlaid with stale sweat, a smell which was a pitiable amalgam of failure and fear.
  11. There is something small and pitiable and mean-spirited about the first; but the second is a universal spirit whose love is noble and all-enveloping.
  12. In the autumn of 1924 the general election reduced the Liberal Party to a pitiable number of MPs.
  13. "Killed in action" was at least a positive end, but "Prisoner of war" - waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you - was just ineffectual and pitiable, an end which was also not an end.

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