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say it: PIT-i-fuh-lee
pitifully is an adverb meaning "to a pitiful degree". It carries one recorded sense.
to a pitiful degree
“wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pitifully come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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