How to pronounce“pitiable”in English
Faber, however, didn't get riches or respect.
He was a pitiable figure, as a London theater manager, John Hollingshead, described in a written account after a visit to the inventor's workshop.
Faber demonstrated the device, 'his child of infinite labor and unmeasurable sorrow,' Hollingshead wrote, culminating with 'God Save the Queen.'
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Definitions of “pitiable”
That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
“Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.”
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