pityinglyadv.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxiii. 422 [She] listens eagerly to Stories told to the Disadvantage of Individuals of her own Sex..; Will unpityingly propagate such Stories.]

1794 M. A. Meilan tr. F. de S. de La Mothe-Fénelon Adventures Telemachus (ed. 2) II. xxiii. 431 Convinc'd that for my benefit, the god, Who pityingly even wields affliction's rod,..Him gave as well to me, with godlike thought, To teach me how heaven's pleasure might be wrought.

1796 I. Kelly Ruins Avondale Priory I. 73 She stopt, caught his arm, and in a voice, pityingly kind, exclaimed, ‘Poor Harry Fitzaubin!’.

1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron 308 My kind women looked at me pityingly, and were eloquent with their simple religious consolation.

1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing I. 231 Looking kindly and pityingly in his face.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iv. 347 Curtis shook his head and smiled pityingly.

2001 S. Walton Out of It (2002) ii. 20 The wine-producing peoples of southern Europe tend to look pityingly on those dank northern cultures where the vine can't perform.