Although being able to speak, he has chosen to stay silent because of the pitying looks of the people around him.
en.wikipedia.org He spent years enjoying pitying his single friends, and somehow, he's now 30 and single.
www.huffingtonpost.com The characters spout familiar platitudes to each other: live your dream, get a life and move on, stop pitying yourself and learn to love thyself...
movies.ndtv.com Then they would give me a pitying look and emit a snorty laugh.
www.ft.com Other unhelpful responses included inadequate or overly forceful restraint by the parent; shaming, threatening, yelling, slapping, lying; or, alternately, pitying, placating, bribing, and helpless parent behaviors.
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