pitied
past simple and past participle ofpity
| 单词 | pitied |
| 释义 | pitied past simple and past participle ofpity pity verb[T] uk/ˈpɪt.i/us/ˈpɪt̬.i/C2 tofeelsadnessorsympathyfor someone'sunhappinessorbadsituation: I pity anyone who's never been inlove. He'sdeeplyunhappy, and moreto be pitiedthancriticized. I pity you havingto put up with her atwork! Sympathy & compassion
Examplesofpitiedpitied In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Sixteenth-century children who admitted their sins to the council were sent to the hospital andpitied. From theCambridge English Corpus The outsider is not necessarily someone to bepitied. From theCambridge English Corpus Moments such as these code blindness as undesirable and debilitating, as a condition to bepitiedand feared. From theCambridge English Corpus Child benefit was introduced in the wake of the renewed emphasis on child poverty, in a political climate where children werepitiedas victims of unfortunate circumstance. From theCambridge English Corpus She is to be congratulated on that, or perhapspitiedfor it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously, any physical or mental weakness is to bepitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are people who are under pressure from events and circumstances and are more to bepitiedthan anything else, and are to be assisted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Millions of our fellow citizens do not enjoy that freedom, and of them, surely, the aged are the most to bepitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 So they went to war and the worldpitiedthem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, it is the sort of transaction which, in the not too recent past, wepitiedother countries for having to make. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not a person, therefore, to bepitied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not the problem of people to bepitied, far more of people to be admired. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are more victims to bepitiedthan blamed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody helped them then; nobodypitiedthem then. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These women are, of course, to bepitied; but there are quite a number of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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