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".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- extremely and desperately
- extremely and pitifully
- badly and desperately
- badly and pitifully
- carelessly and desperately
- carelessly and pitifully
- severely and desperately
- severely and pitifully
- intensely and desperately
- intensely and pitifully
- awfully and desperately
- awfully and pitifully
- seriously and desperately
- seriously and pitifully
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: Series / Monsters -
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.
Source: Film / The Descent
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