For pity's sake

Definition

pity /'pÇti/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (for sb/sth) သနားျခင္း။ က႐ုဏာ။ အသနား။ be full of pity for the starving animals ❍ be moved to pity by sb's suffering ❍ I have/feel very little pity for convicted murderers. ❍ Have pity on (ie Have some sympathy for) the people who have to go out in this dreadful weather! ❍ I took pity on the beggar and gave him some money. ၂။ [sing] ~ (that…) ဝမ္းနည္းစရာ။ စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာ။ ႏွေျမာစရာ။ It's a (great) pity the weather isn't better for our outing today. ❍ What a pity (that) you can't come with us tonight. ❍ It seems a pity to waste this food. ❍ ( infml ) This dress is really nice. Pity it's so expensive. v ( pt, pp pitied ) သနားသည္။ Pity the poor sailors at sea in this storm! ❍ His widow is much to be pitied. ❏ for pity's sake [ IDM ] (ေအာင့္အည္းသည္းခံျခင္းငွာ မတတ္ႏိုင္သည့္ သေဘာကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကား)။ …ဆိုေနမွ။ တစ္ဆိတ္ေလာက္…။ For pity's sake, please help us! ❏ more's the pity [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဝမ္းနည္းစရာပါပဲ။ ‘Was the bicycle insured?’ ‘No, more's the pity!’ See also PITEOUS, PITIABLE, PITIFUL, PITILESS ❏ pitying adj (အထင္အျမင္ေသးမႈႏွင့္မကင္းတတ္ဘဲ) က႐ုဏာ သက္ေသာ။ He received only pitying looks/smiles from his audience. ❏ pityingly adv သနားၾကင္နာစြာ (သို႔) အထင္ေသး အျမင္ေသး သည့္ ပံုစံမ်ဳိးျဖင့္။

Examples

1. She looked at him with a mixture of pity and disgust.
2. There was pity in her voice.
3. [feel pity for someone] : She felt pity for all the children living in such terrible conditions.
4. [an object of pity] : In the past poor people were seen as objects of pity.
5. [show (no) pity] : The judge showed no pity in her treatment of the youngsters.