pitiful state
Frequency: 6.87.9 per million words
a very bad or sad condition
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Examples (10)
- The old house was in a pitiful state of disrepair.
- After the accident, the car was in a pitiful state.
- His health was in a truly pitiful state after years of neglect.
- The country's economy is in a pitiful state.
- She found the abandoned dog in a pitiful state.
- The garden had been left in a pitiful state over the winter.
- Their once-grand castle is now in a pitiful state.
- The team's performance is in a pitiful state this season.
- He described the conditions of the shelter as a pitiful state.
- The company's finances were in a pitiful state, on the verge of collapse.