pitiful vs too bad

pitiful

adv
  • In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically. 

adj
  • So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. 

  • Of an amount or number: very small. 

too bad

phrase
  • It is unfortunate that. 

  • That's a pity; that's unfortunate. 

How often have the words pitiful and too bad occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )