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Meaning pathetic meaning

What does pathetic mean?

Definitions in simple English

pathetic Adjective

— Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion. The student's pathetic pleas for an extension stirred the teacher's heart.

pathetic

— adjective (= pitiable, pitiful) inspiring mixed contempt and pity their efforts were pathetic pitiable lack of character pitiful exhibition of cowardice — adjective (= hapless, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched) deserving or inciting pity a hapless victim miserable victims of war the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic — Galsworthy piteous appeals for help pitiable homeless children a pitiful fate Oh, you poor thing his poor distorted limbs a wretched life — adjective (= silly) inspiring scornful pity how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years — Dashiell Hammett

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pathetic English » English

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How do I use pathetic in a sentence?

Simple sentences

That's a pathetic excuse.

My classmates are pathetic. They have studied for four years and yet they can't conjugate verbs! The only student who can speak well is not in the class anymore.

This is pathetic.

You're pathetic.

How pathetic!

Tom is pathetic.

That was pathetic.

He's pathetic and stupid.

My French is pathetic.

You guys are pathetic.

His driving was pathetic.

You look pathetic in that outfit.

It's pathetic.

That's pathetic.

It's pathetic, isn't it?

This is so pathetic.

You're a pathetic loser.

I think Tom is pathetic.

You're the pathetic one.

As the owner of a rabbit, they can't fight for shit. They don't even think to bite as a form of defense. They try to punch with their tiny, useless front legs. It's adorable and pathetic.

Movie subtitles

How pathetic. we value ourselves above others.

You are a pathetic man who has been left behind by the times! The light has already turned poor for today. It will be fine for you to leave at first light tomorrow.

You are a pathetic man.

Dude, I'm trying to show you how pathetic you look.

That's why it's so pathetic.

He's pathetic enough as it is!

This'd be funny, if it weren't so pathetic.

Those cops are so dumb, it's pathetic.

Pathetic, wasn't it, all my fuss and fury over anything as unimportant as this party.

I'm pathetic.

Pathetic, is he not, sir?

She looked pathetic, poor thing.

Man, you're pathetic.

Didn't even have the guts to come here sober. You're pathetic.

It seems rather pathetic. Your letting him down for a paltry two thousand pounds.

And a bit pathetic.

I haven't achieved anything yet, it is all so pathetic.

Something tender it should be, and pathetic.

Only a pathetic attempt to save a home.

Put him in my car and take care of this pathetic crowd.

If Equity or my lawyer can't or won't do anything about it, I shall personally stuff that pathetic little lost lamb down Mr. DeWitt's ugly throat!

I wanted to show her how pathetic he looked tied to that pine tree.

I could be pathetic as the deserted mother in court.

You are a pathetic man who has been left behind by the times!

His life. His pathetic life still held him back.

They're absolutely pathetic.

He's pathetic.

Sad glory. Pathetic debauchery.

I thought you were a fool, but you're a pathetic tartuffe.

You're all pathetic with your bundle, accumulating cent after cent.

Pathetic little joke.

Pathetic!

You pathetic creep!

You'd be pathetic if you weren't so disgusting.

And I had to be most pathetic to the agent to get if for so little.

News and current affairs

And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.

They are pathetic, deranged, and often have struggled with mental instability for much of their lives.

So any new LDP-led coalition government will be just as precarious as the last two pathetic administrations.

The last days of former president Carlos Menem's political career, furiously fighting his own political extinction, has offered a pathetic example of this tradition.

It is a depressing, pathetic record, which the UN is trying--probably in vain--to redeem by appearing, in the Iraq crisis, as the voice of reason and international legitimacy.

Pathetic attempts to go it alone have not made Europe stronger, and anti-Americanism harms Europe more than the US.

The main questions are how authoritarian he will become, or whether this pathetic campaign will weaken him.

Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot's memory.

Any attempt in such places to go behave the European way and negotiate - without the military power needed to back up diplomacy - would be pathetic.

In a pathetic spectacle of incompetence, Japan's economy is sinking, its public finances moving to junk bond status.

So, for example, journalists stress the rather pathetic high note of a grim reality: at least there are not more massacres and murders, and the numbers are stable.

Indeed, Argentina's case is pathetic.

So far, however, the response from the countries that can most easily afford to take in refugees has been pathetic.

Such manifestations would have appeared pathetic and pompous; I would have regarded them as a haughtier version of the kind of patriotism that I dislike from national patriots.

Presumably, our attempt at resurrecting it was pathetic and hopeless.

Only Germany's lunatic fringe dares to commemorate Hitler. Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot's memory.

Given the pathetic state of the Socialist opposition, it is difficult to see what price, if any, Sarkozy will pay for his record in office.

What a pathetic ending for a man who could have become one of the most important leaders in modern Chinese history.

What makes Tajbakhsh's incarceration look truly pathetic is that Iran boasts of one of the oldest civilizations in the world.

The pathetic attempt by Netanyahu's opponents to shift the campaign to the spiraling cost of living and prohibitive housing prices was easily defeated by that compelling message.

He would be forced to join Russia's pathetic opposition, which bears part of the blame for the country's toxic political culture.

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