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pathetic
adjective as in sad, affecting
Strongest matches
deplorable, feeble, heartbreaking, miserable, pitiful, poignant, sorry, woeful
Weak matches
commiserable, distressing, heartrending, inadequate, lamentable, meager, melting, moving, paltry, petty, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, poor, puny, rueful, tender, touching, useless, worthless, wretched
Example Sentences
"Whereas you are a pathetic and poisonous little man that doesn't care about Scotland, doesn't understand Scotland, and that's why Scotland will utterly reject you."
There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.
The right had become fatally un-hip, trapped in a pathetic, imaginary vision of the past.
As for Foster, who first snagged my attention as the pathetic loon in “Alpha Dog,” he knows how to play a hiss-worthy heel.
Add in the fact that the defense was absolutely pathetic, it’s another losing season.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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