Pitiful and Short

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Pitiful adjective - Deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy).

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Short and pitiful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Pitiful".

Nearby Words: pity, pitiless, pitiable, piteous, pitifully

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

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Pitiful and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pitiful" instead an adjective "Short".

And since it only fires the one slug, there goes any real short range capability as well - most people who do use it treat it more like they would if they were quickscoping with a sniper rifle, but with pitiful range.

Source: Short-Range Shotgun
Its flaws include slow fire rate, low ammo capacity, short range, and pitiful damage.

Source: Shotguns Are Just Better
The Volus are an even more extreme example, having pitiful amount of health and not even able to use cover perfectly (although they are short enough for this normally not to be an issue).

Source: Glass Cannon / Video Games

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