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Перевод: pitiful

[прилагательное]
сострадательный; жалостливый; жалостный; жалкий; ничтожный; презренный; несчастный

Тезаурус:

1. The book highlights such subjects as animism, Jewish, Christian and Hellenistic "mythologies"; the realities of health, sickness and death; of nature - its seasons (notably Spring and Winter) and its glories, as well as its decadence (we find no evidence for Djwa's contention that "the book moves through cycles of winter death followed by spring rebirth," any more than for her "structural myth" or "controlling Orpheus myth" which form the foundation for her critique of the book); of rationality and madness; loneliness and intimacy; of truth and treachery, prayer and protest; of prophet and priest, doctors and teachers, angels and devils; freedom and slavery, sainthood and sinning, wonder and despair, war and peace, love and loss, beauty and brutality; regret and humour; sensuality and discipline, joy and sadness; of the greatness of God and his creation, and the pitiful smallness and incompetency of man; the city and the breadth of nature itself: sea and air, rivers and countryside; savagery and urbanity; loss and its disappointing pangs.
2. He was not lying when, in Wednesday's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him, he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music, opera, theatre, films and sport.
3. The results were pitiful.
4. The young man was living with his parents and his blind sister in a pitiful hovel, one of the worst on the island.
5. Serious inroads had now been made into my pitiful cash reserves and tomorrow I would be penniless.
6. But listen up you pitiful poetry people: just deal with it.
7. Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens, which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
8. But perhaps Joan's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident.
9. Did unemployment, economic depression and the General Strike reduce trade unionism to a pitiful weakness?
10. He exuded confidence, and even cracked jokes, at what he described as the pitiful state of the mujahedin's strategy conducted by Pakistan.
11. His mouth sagged open and uttered a pitiful croak as Yanto sat down beside him.
12. Only occasionally do they jar on the nerves, as when your queen on heat starts her pitiful calling (" I want attention" - of a special kind) and attracts a chorus of savagely competitive, caterwauling toms to the space beneath your bedroom window.
13. Were he among familiars it might help him but as it is he cannot place himself here and it is pitiful to see how lost he is.