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How to use the word pitied in a Sentence?

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A consensus is emerging, the minorities of Iraq want to remain in Iraq, but not as victims to be pitied – they want to be masters of their own fate.

– Robert Nicholson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If we have mercy on those who carried out this coup attempt, we will be the ones to be pitied.

– Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They are not to be pitied nor romanticized by the viewer, you want to see and feel the person who lies somewhere in between.

– Michael Joseph

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If God has called your child, allow me to say this: Your child is not to be pitied, your child is already in God's arms. One day, your family will be reunited in heaven.

– Philip Mantofa

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

– John Gay

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10 years ago

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

– Pindar

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12 years ago

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

– Metastasio

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12 years ago

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

– Earl of Chesterfield

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13 years ago

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

– Herodotus

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14 years ago

It is better to be envied than pitied.

– Herodotus

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14 years ago

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

– Jane Austen

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14 years ago

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