Definition of "pitifully" [pitifully]

• In a pitiful manner. (adverb)

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• "He was a thin-faced creature, rheumy of eye, and drawing his breath as from a well; the ferret of the village for all underlying scandal and tattle, whose sole humanity was what he called pitifully 'a peakin 'at his chest, and who had retired from his business of grocer in the village upon the fortune brought to him in the energy and capacity of a third wife to conduct affairs, while he wandered up and down and knitted people together -- an estimable office in a land where your house is so grievously your castle."
• "After mystifying doctors and caving in pitifully and feeling far too sorry for myself for a few weeks, I suddenly gathered some resolve together and took to all-night reading."
• "The prisoners still stared pitifully from the bars – daily expecting release, daily disappointed."