Answer: PITY
PITY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 66 times.
Referring Clues:
- Feeling for the unfortunate
 - Ruefulness
 - Feel sorry for
 - Wistful comment, after "a"
 - Bleed for
 - Compassion
 - "What a shame"
 - Terrible shame
 - Unfortunate development
 - "___ makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche
 - "Town Without ___" (Gene Pitney hit)
 - Crying shame
 - Sympathetic sorrow
 - "A woman's ___ often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher
 - Commiserate with
 - Feel compassion for
 - Emotion evoked by pathos
 - Feel for
 - "That's rough"
 - Feel bad for
 - Sympathetic feeling
 - Mr. T's verb
 - Feeling toward the unfortunate
 - Opposite of schadenfreude
 - Be moved by
 - "The scavenger of misery," per Shaw
 - Sorrowful comment
 - "So sad"
 - Unfortunate circumstance
 - Sympathy
 - Compassionate feeling
 - "Too bad"
 - "Too bad"
 - See 8-Down
 - Shame
 - Condescending sympathy
 - "No beast so fierce but knows some touch of ___": "King Richard III"
 - It may be "aw"-inspiring
 - "Tsk!"
 - Commiseration
 - "Such a shame"
 - "Bummer"
 - "I don't want your ___"
 - Mercy
 - "That's too bad"
 - Regrettable situation
 - Weep for
 - "That's a shame"
 - Be sorry for
 - "That's a shame!"
 - "What a ___!" ("Too bad!")
 - "How unfortunate"
 - Understanding feeling
 - "The Sorrow and the ___"
 - Have compassion for
 - "Too bad!"
 - Heartfelt feeling
 - "I ___ the fool"
 - "What a ___"
 - Hard-hearted one's lack
 - "Alas!"
 - ___ party
 - See 35-Across
 - Ache for, in a way
 - "'Tis a ___"
 - Feel sympathy for
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 06, 2025
 - LA Times - September 06, 2024
 - LA Times - September 02, 2024
 - LA Times - August 01, 2024
 - USA Today - June 07, 2024
 - USA Today - April 19, 2024
 - USA Today - April 18, 2023
 - USA Today - March 03, 2023
 - New York Times - August 04, 2022
 - LA Times - July 10, 2022
 - New York Times - June 11, 2022
 - New York Times - January 21, 2022
 - LA Times - November 27, 2021
 - New York Times - July 12, 2021
 - New York Times - June 27, 2021
 - New York Times - January 15, 2021
 - USA Today - November 18, 2020
 - New York Times - March 12, 2020
 - New York Times - January 07, 2020
 - Universal - October 27, 2019
 
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