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• r  in a compassionate manner
  the nurse looked at him pityingly

• As we wait for our homeward taxi to arrive, we wonder, pityingly, why her husband hasn't joined her.
• The idea that anti-Catholicism is rampant strikes most non-Catholic Americans as self-pityingly sensitive or at least inaccurate.
• From across the Pearl River estuary, Hong Kong's worldly denizens once snickered pityingly at their small-town, Macanese cousins.

• compassionately