Word Finder - pathetic

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Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.

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The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.

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Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.

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You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.

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Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

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Trochlear.

It is a pathetic record.

The glow and the glamour of the Crusades disappear save for the pathetic sunset splendours of St Louis, as Dandolo dies, and gallant Villehardouin drops his pen.

There was a pathetic expression of sorrow, prayer, and hope in it.

There was something particularly pathetic and resolute in her face today.

The pathetic song of "Lochaber no more" was written by Allan Ramsay.

This is truly pathetic, not to say hypocritical.

It is amusing and pathetic to see Helen with her dolls.

Love, in the form of pathetic sentiment rather than of irregular passion, is the chief motive of his pieces.

He seemed altogether so thin, small, and pathetic.

But he has left nothing more graceful, naïve and pathetic than his early memories in Praeterita - a book which must rank with the most famous "Confessions" in any literature.

Augustine's explanation of its fall passes in review not only the calamities of Roman history - combined with a pathetic perception of its greatness, - but carries the survey back to the origin of evil at the creation.

Pathetic! she snapped before she stormed away.

About Bob, the pages flutter down, in a pathetic little snow flurry.

Observers of celebrity crisis cringe at the pathetic attempts to seek a safe bolt hole.

When woken this morning the pathetic creature opted for a lie-in.

He seemed so pathetic, an unconscious man tied to a radiator.

Not having your first date by the time you're 13 is NOT pathetic, at all.

There are a multitude of words to describe her behavior, one of them being pathetic.

It was so pathetic.

Bede has the artist's instinct of proportion, the artist's sense for the picturesque and the pathetic. His style too, modelled largely, in the present writer's opinion, on that of Gregory in the Dialogues, is limpid and unaffected.

There he wrote the best known of all his verses, the pathetic Jeune captive, a poem at once of enchantment and of despair.

Especially in this last he shows a tendency to epigram and often uses humorous and pathetic expressions.

In language, and perhaps in style and manner, it is akin to the tenth; while the twenty-fourth is in the pathetic vein of the ninth, and like it serves to bring out new aspects of the character of Achilles.

Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for the act.

I've always been a big fan of the pathetic fallacy, unlike Ruskin, who coined the term.

And they're intelligent thinking people -- not idiotic, useless, pathetic dumbos as the media likes to portray them!

Announcements about this or anything else over the pathetic sound system were completely inaudible.

There followed the pathetic interlude of the Children's Crusade in 1212.

And finally the " they haven't visited argument " is frankly pathetic.

I started to see the first Christmas things at the end of October which is absolutely pathetic.

Let's hear it all again you useless bunch of pathetic deluded prats!

But his attempt at a point-by-point rebuttal was dishonest in the extreme and, frankly, pathetic.

Those with living livestock hurried about tending the pathetic remnants of their herds with cloth over their noses to keep out the smell.

Beneath a rather shoddy canopy, a pathetic looking child.

But he has left nothing more graceful, naïve and pathetic than his early memories in Praeterita - a book which must rank with the most famous "Confessions" in any literature.

All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.

When they are a pathetic shambles compared to what they could be, I suffer.

As many a waiter and waitress are only to happy to share, there are plenty of sordid tales involving massive orders of food, unpleasant personalities and pathetic tips to top it all off.

Williams then struck back, stating that Omarosa should look into getting some Botox for her wrinkles and that "Omarosa wished she had my career…," adding that she was a "…delusional, D-List, pathetic woman."

Some of the auditions were hilarious, others downright pathetic.

What they especially praise is the ethos or permanent moral level of his works as compared with those of the later "pathetic" school.

Maria Theresa had undoubtedly an instinctive histrionic sense of the perspective of the theatre, and could adopt the appropriate attitude and gesture, passionate, dignified or pathetic, required to impress those she wished to influence.

How could anyone go so far as to seduce that pathetic woman, just to get close enough to terrorize his wife?

The building had "become a pathetic travesty of the original design," as Walter Ison sadly noted.

He was totally engrossed in games with a threadbare and rather pathetic looking little beanbag which had just the one eye.

Put your pathetic selves out of misery and end the charade already.

For various reasons, sales of DAB digital radios have been pathetic - especially compared to successful products like DVD!

Make sure your kid gets a better education than you seem to have, with your pathetic attempts at moral equivalence.

And diving in World Cup games is utterly pathetic.

I haven't seen you looking pale yet - I should think you might look rather pathetic!