Piteous

[adj] deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

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Synonyms

hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, unfortunate, wretched

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