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单词 pitying
释义
pitying
present 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!
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  • aw
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  • better luck next timeidiom
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  • cheese
  • heart-wrenching
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  • heartrending
  • pitifully
  • pitifulness
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  • poor
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  • shoulder
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  • yourheart achesidiom
  • yourheart goes out tosomeoneidiom
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(Definition ofpityingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpitying

pitying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

For those who think that bitter party controversy is a recent invention and one to be deplored, he could have had nothing butpityingcontempt.
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Let us leave this aged defeatist and reactionary to thepityingcontempt of posterity.
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Since then the author, in apityingletter, writes to me to say that one cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
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It is a case ofpityingboth the poor motorists and the poor pedestrians.
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At that time, we receivedpityingsmiles.
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Here the late middle-aged and elderly may be treated with a certain degree of affection, it is true, but it is a mocking, condescending andpityingsort of affection.
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No person can move through society preoccupied with his status, and having all his friendspityinghim and sympathising with him about his preoccupation with status, without going wholly bad.
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She originally believed he was simply using her, but later suspects he waspityingher.
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He often tries to organize the male students in class, though his cunning often fails and the girls wind uppityinghim instead.
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Pityingthe future suffering of their friend, the geese suggest they fly off with her in the manner already described.
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If pushed too hard there is the danger of the witnesses becoming strident, pathetic, selfpitying.
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