Difference between Miserable and Pitiful

MISERABLE vs PITIFUL: NOUN

Very small (of an amount or number).
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Feeling pity; merciful.
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Filled with pity or compassion.
Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. : pathetic.
Inspiring or deserving pity.
Bad; unfortunate
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Deserving or inciting pity

Synonyms Distressed, forlorn, disconsolate, afflicted, pitiable. See affliction.
Compassionate; merciful; commiserating.
Covetous; miserly; niggardly.
Of wretched character or quality; without value or merit; very poor; mean; worthless: as, a miserable soil; a miserable performer or performance; a miserable subterfuge.
Manifesting misery; indicative of want or suffering; shocking; pitiable: as, a miserable hut; to be covered with miserable rags; miserable looks.
Very unhappy
Full of misery
Causing or attended by suffering or unhappiness; distressing; doleful: as, a miserable lot or condition; miserable weather.
Unhappy; wretched; hapless.

Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a feeling of sorrow and sympathy for the distressed.
Exciting or fitted to excite pity or compassion; miserable; deplorable; sad: as, a pitiful condition; a pitiful look.
To be pitied for its littleness or meanness; paltry; insignificant; contemptible; despicable.
Bad
Unfortunate

Uncomfortable, Paltry, Misfortunate, Meager, Sad, Unhappy, Deplorable, Hapless, Poor, Pitiable, Abject, Pathetic, Pitiful, Woeful, Wretched

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

Uncomfortable, Paltry, Misfortunate, Meager, Sad, Unhappy, Deplorable, Hapless, Poor, Pitiable, Abject, Pathetic, Pitiful, Woeful, Wretched

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

You quoted Coulter saying women were miserable leaders.
Dogs with hair and cats make him miserable.
How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two.
Never did ambition, never did public animosities, engage men against one another in such miserable hostilities, in such miserable calamities.
Then they realized that they were still miserable or that made them miserable even.
Their mission on earth is to attempt to destroy the souls of men and make them miserable as they themselves are miserable.
While you feel miserable, you could make others more miserable.
He was Burgermeister Meisterburger, the miserable mayor of the miserable town.
Dry but miserable, he makes everyone around him miserable also.
She was miserable, I was miserable, my older daughter was miserable.

Canaanite provincials as pitiful and of little consequence.
Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
He will be seen naked in pitiful disorder.
We are not excessively pitiful of his case.
Poor pitiful me, how I had been wronged.
But the birth itself is still more pitiful.
All he does is cry poor pitiful me.
Really pitiful players may bring a croquet mallet.
Jesus is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The women first break their men into a pitiful betas, unless they already were pitiful.