pitiable

Modifies a noun

• state: Thy pitiable state has drawn forth many a sigh, Has wrung forth many a tear!
• condition: Fifty thousand refugees have arrived at Nanking in a pitiable condition.
• object: Exiled to rural surroundings in another county, it will be a pitiable object.
• reliance: Their wealth as reward, their power as necessity for an incremental advance, beyond a pitiable reliance on natureâs abstract beauty.
• victim: Stereotyped thinking that characterizes people with disabilities as either ' brave heroes ' or ' pitiable victims ' often causes offense.
• exhibition: Come: get into yours, and have done with this pitiable exhibition.

Modifying Another Word

• very: When taken his stockings where completely worn from his feet and he appeared to be in a very pitiable plight.
• so: The surviving Indians were so pitiable that when the ship finally reached Hispaniola, Spanish authorities set them free.