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Her pitying glance and dismissive head shake were particularly effective in communicating disgust and amusement as her opponent claimed that immigrants were eating their neighbor’s pets and newborn babies were being killed in post-birth abortions.

It elicited pitying sighs from Labour's enlarged cohort of MPs, struggling to fit on the green benches on the government side of the House of Commons.

Josh: In our quest to become better recyclers, Melissa, I found myself pitying the ephemeral life of a pizza box.

Mainstream media churns out a seemingly endless number of articles complaining that women allegedly refuse to get married, and pitying men left alone by those stubbornly single ladies.

"I didn't want it to be a 'doom and gloom moment' because I can't deal with people pitying me," she says.