PITYINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pityingly mean? 

• PITYINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb PITYINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a compassionate manner

  Familiarity information: PITYINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITYINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a compassionate manner

Synonyms:

compassionately; pityingly

Context example:

the nurse looked at him pityingly

 Context examples 

Also were there shaking of heads and prophetic mutterings, and the women looked pityingly at Ikeega, and her face was grave and sad.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The Professor looked pityingly at him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Brissenden looked at him pityingly and admiringly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Poor devil," Scott murmured pityingly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on:—I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door—which they call by a name meaning word-bearer—came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)