pathetic
[pəˈθetɪk]
Definition:
1. Making you feel pity or sadness.
2. Deserving or inciting pity.
3. Inspiring mixed contempt and pity.
4. Inspiring scornful pity.
'pathetic' example sentence:
- I think I'm becoming more pathetic as time goes by.
- What pathetic excuses.
- How pathetic I am.
- It's pathetic, I know.
- The candidates, he says, are "pathetic".
- Pathetic dog, you are losing us this war.
- Critics who are guided by money are pathetic.
- But saying sorry makes them feel a bit pathetic.
- It's kind of industry pathetic thing.
- It's a pound for a small glass of wine, which is pathetic.
- A recent entry states that living with me is pathetic;
- Tom stammered a moment, in a pathetic confusion, then got it out, "To crack nuts with!"
- Potter lifted his face and looked around him with a pathetic hopelessness in his eyes.
- Yet within China economic growth was pathetic and living conditions were wretched.
- How pathetic, I thought when I first heard of this.
- But humans - we're pathetic.
- "Shall I after him, Captain," asked pathetic Smee, "and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?"
- The animal gave a pathetic little whimper.
- It's pathetic to see her best friend sink so low.
- She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.
- He saw the pathetic data on the three car.
- What do you mean "pathetic"?
- If the future is also pathetic, that is truly pathetic.
- The responsibility of putting the world in its current, pathetic state.
- Penny: You want to know the most pathetic part?
- It's pathetic. I'd be better off by myself.
- Hendon sighed, and muttered to himself, "Poor ruined mind—still busy with its pathetic dream."
- Mulan gave me a pathetic lower-teeth-revealing smile and grunted a charity chuckle. Then she got back to the topic at hand.
- Let's go-Where? Your life was pathetic.
- You're pathetic!
- John: Well, you do look a little pathetic.
- I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
- They look so pathetic.
- He made another pathetic whimpering sound.
- How pathetic!
- I don't even need to tell you how pathetic that is.
- But why sit and think how pathetic you are?
- If you want to avoid the pain inflicted by the increasingly pathetic dollar, cancel that summer vacation to England and look to New England.
- Don't be so pathetic.
- And anti-Obama jokes on the internet are pathetic.
- He was beginning to feel pathetic and sorry for himself—not for anyone else.
- If the future is also pathetic that is truly pathetic.
- The two made a pretty, or rather a pathetic, picture.
- You pathetic creature!
- It's ridiculous, it's pathetic, it's a joke.
- She made a pathetic attempt to smile.
- Tom was touched with this pathetic distress.
- We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home.
- The starving children were a pathetic sight.
- Why get involved with that pathetic excuse for a human being?
- The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
- It's pathetic that grown men have to resort to violence like this.