piteousness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈpɪt.i.əs.nəs/ us/ˈpɪt̬.i.əs.nəs/
可怜
the quality of causing you to feel sadness and sympathy
They begged with professional and remorseless piteousness. 他们带着装出来的可怜在祈求，丝毫没有真正的感情。
It wasn't the hysteria of her wailing that got to me so much as the piteousness. 令我心生同情的不是她歇斯底里的哭号而是她那可怜的样子。
See: piteous
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- His wife pleaded, with all the affection and piteousness of love.
- She will probably die with heroic piteousness.
- I gazed up at him with wonder and wild piteousness.