Definition of "piteously" [piteously]

• In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively. (adverb)

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• "Hear him call piteously his father's name; see him clutch his fingers as he shrieks for his sister -- his only sister, the twin of his soul -- now weeping for him in his distant home!"
• "Then in his throbbing head there was a question that kept on repeating itself -- that cry he had last heard as of someone calling piteously, something about his father, and who could it be?"
• "But the scene was suddenly changed; a quick step came round the hot-house; the birds flew away, and the mother called piteously to her child to follow."