Under the overhead light in the kitchen, Eric looked pretty pitiful.

"I'll put these in something for you so they don't look quite so pitiful."

He would have shaken her again, but she looked so pitiful.

I hadn't liked the Lieutenant in the least, but it looked rather pitiful.

And several times, when we looked particularly pitiful, strangers invited us into their homes.

They both looked rather pitiful, and the other one actually drew steel as we went by.

The leaves get so full of holes they just look pitiful.

But I couldn't resist trying to help when she looked so pitiful.

She looked so pitiful that Jake couldn't make himself be rough with her.

He could manage to look pitiful, and that was all.