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- adjective not
pitiable
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Examples
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To this it is that such vile fellows owe much of their vileness: whereas, if they found themselves shunned, and despised, and treated as beasts of prey, as they are, they would run to their caverns; there howl by themselves; and none but such as sad accident, or unpitiable presumption, threw in their way, would suffer by them.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Go -- you infinitesimal! you epitome of unpitiable little shames! '
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Thus there is not an hour of our summer sunshine, not a moment of our sweet starlight, not a vibration of our moonlit groves, not an undulation of odorous air from our flowerbeds, not a pulse of delicious sound from music or song to us, but that hapless unpitiable soul is ever falling sick afresh of the overwhelming sense that all around it is eternal.
The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart
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The eighth note, unpitiable as ever in its elemental power, cut into the bass with the strength that moves and burrows as it advances, until it was caught up by the redeemed voice in E-flat major.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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You of the Anglican faith -- bah, how you are cold, how you are hard, how you are unpitiable!
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The one thing wholly or greatly admirable in this play is the exposition of the somewhat pitiful but not unpitiable character of King Richard.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Imperious master, unpitiable executor of the rights of your domination, you spare neither blows, nor whips, nor privations; you chastise him by the punishment of hunger and thirst, you strip him, often you load him with chains and shut him
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Thou unclean, yet unmalignant, not unpitiable thing!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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To this it is that such vile fellows owe much of their vileness: whereas, if they found themselves shunned, and despised, and treated as beasts of prey, as they are, they would run to their caverns; there howl by themselves; and none but such as sad accident, or unpitiable presumption, threw in their way, would suffer by them.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725
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