Answer: pity

AnswerCrossword Clue
PITYCommiseration
PITYUnfortunate development
PITY"... makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche
PITYTerrible shame
PITYWistful comment, after "a"
PITYBleed for
PITYRuefulness
PITYFeeling for the unfortunate
PITY"Town Without ...," 1961 film
PITY"And never a saint took ... . . . "
PITY"A woman's ... often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher
PITY"For ... runneth soon in gentle hearts": Chaucer
PITY"... ever healeth envy": F. Bacon
PITY"What a ..." (too bad)
PITY"It's a ..." (too bad)
PITYCause of regret.
PITYCause for sorrow.
PITYCause for regret.
PITYSympathy.
PITYFellow feeling.
PITYSympathize
pityto feel sorrow at another's misfortune
pitysympathetic sorrow for another's suffering
pityto show mercy or compassion
pitycause for regret
pityto feel pity for
PITY... party
PITYResponse to misfortune
PITYMr. T's verb
PITYFeeling toward the unfortunate
PITYCommiseration.
PITYCompassionate feeling
PITYMatter of regret
PITYWeezer "This is Such a ..."
PITYDrowning Pool song we feel sorry for?
PITYRegrettable situation
PITYIt may be "aw"-inspiring
PITYUnfortunate circumstance
PITYOpposite of schadenfreude
PITY"The scavenger of misery," per Shaw