Desperately and Pitifully

Desperately

Desperately adverb - To a great degree.

Pitifully and desperately are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pitifully" instead an adverb "Desperately".

Nearby Words: desperate, desperation

Pitifully

Pitifully adverb - To a pitiful degree.
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Synonyms for Pitifully

Desperately and pitifully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Desperately" instead an adverb "Pitifully".

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Monsters In fact, he pitifully and desperately tries to convince himself that the whole thing is a prank being pulled by his friends before the spider that made the web showed up.
  • Film / The Descent Upon learning that her child is dead (after a surprisingly sad moment of the Crawler desperately and pitifully nudging the body), she immediately goes berserk.
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