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.

Use 'pathetic' in a sentence:

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