Translation for 'piteous' from English to Bulgarian

piteous {adj}

сърцераздирателен

• Eventually he was allowed to depart, but his chests of hoarded money were seized by the king's men, and only restored in response to a piteous personal appeal to the king.
• Those Chinese sailors who reached the English ship's deck were attacked with cutlasses and hurled back overboard, despite making "piteous cries" for mercy.
• She used this fierce, yellow-eyed image in her first book titled "The Eyes of the Gull" and described the theme as a "symbol of a piteous heart of the north."
• so piteous and persistent were the calls for help that it did not seem humane to refuse; and very reluctantly study was almost entirely laid aside and medical and surgical work undertaken."