What's the difference between piceous and piteous?
Piceous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
Example Sentences:
Piteous
Definition:
(a.) Pious; devout.
(a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
(a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
(a.) Paltry; mean; pitiful.
Example Sentences:
(1) He waits, outside, hearing "piteous, animal moans".
(2) One administrator piteously argued that the government officials who create these characters work hard on them and so would feel bad if they were discontinued.
(3) If the masters of England's great public schools are busy forming Self-piteous Anonymous, there are many good candidates for entry.
(4) In her personal report about being at the centre of the recent political storm, Sarah Vine (columnist and wife of Michael Gove) recorded piteously that the abuse felt like having a lovely dress mocked.