to be pitied
1pitied — pitied; un·pitied; …
2Pitied — Pity Pit y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pitying}.] 1. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.… …
3pitied — pit·y || pɪtɪ n. mercy, compassion; sympathy, commiseration v. have mercy on, feel compassion for, commiserate with, sympathize with …
4pitied — past of pity …
5better be envied than pitied — Cf. PINDAR Pythian Odes I. 163 κρέσσων γὰρ οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος, envy is stronger than pity; HERODOTUS Hist. iii. 52 φθονέεσθαι κρέσσον ἐστὶ ἢ οἰκτείρεσθαι, it is better to be envied than to be pitied; mid 15th cent. Fr. trop plus vaut estre envié… …
6felt sorry for — pitied, sympathized with, empathized with …
7felt sorry for him — pitied him …
8felt sorry for himself — pitied himself …
9Pity — implies tender or sometimes slightly contemptuous sorrow for one in misery or distress. By the nineteenth century, two different kinds of pity had come to be distinguished, which we might call benevolent pity and contemptuous pity (see Kimball).… …
10Lamentations 2 — 1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations… …
