Pity
Pity originally means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and was once used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "sympathy" and "empathy". Through insincere usage, it now has more unsympathetic connotations of feelings of superiority or condescension.
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Famous quotes containing the word pity:
“All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Give sorrow and pity to those who mourn;”
—Madeline Bridges (fl. C. 1840)
“But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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