piteously

adv

1. In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.

   “He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.”

   “Across her mind, and bowing over him, Low to her own heart piteously she said:”

   “Little Sea and Desire would wail piteously over my body for a day, and then I should be quickly forgotten.”

   “Adam himself bewildered and Eveless outside the garden; a Minotaur howling piteously in a labyrinth of money-worries.”