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• s  deserving or inciting pity
  piteous appeals for help

• Bumping along a shell-strewn road near Tsitsihar two days after the battle, Correspondent Frederick Kuh of United Press reported freezing corpses gnawed by carrion, piteous .
• Jackson sings a piteous lament, to the effect that "you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.
• Total Espionage is 1) an analysis of Nazi methods, organization, successes; 2) a sketch of the piteous failure of the Allies in the same field; 3) a heartening if somewhat thin .

• hapless
• miserable
• misfortunate
• pathetic
• pitiable
• pitiful
• poor
• wretched

Quotes

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• Alexander Henry in In-Forum (subscription)
  I was much surprised to find him extended on the hearth, uttering dreadful lamentations,Henry wrote. "He stretched out his hands toward me, and in piteous tones begged to me to be kind to a poor helpless, abandoned wretch, who was not of...
• William Wordsworth in Scotsman
  The ultimate wrongheadedness of statist education is that it fails even to convey to students a sense that there is a difference between truth and falsehood, between right and wrong, and thereby condemns those students to the most piteous sort of... Joel Belz http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Belz&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEWjYlGWJ5fa3xTguL6kJMpN52LTQ BP News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp%3FID%3D29967&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGdXqr7b7OTT8Bqrh48bIy-9hOyqQ Feb 26, 2009 74831 100879 piteous Wordsworth wrote in 'The Idiot Boy': This piteous news so much it shocked her/ She quite forgot to send the doctor."