As adverbs the difference between piteously and pityingly
is that piteously is in a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively while pityingly is in a pitying manner.
pityingly
English
Adverb
(
en adverb)
In a pitying manner.
* (Max Beerbohm), Zuleika Dobson
- The lady in the mirror gazed at the lady in the room, reproachfully at first, then — for were they not sisters? — relentingly, then pityingly .