object of pity

Subject to racist taunts, separated from his family back in Korea and prone to wetting the bed, Ye-Joon is an easy object of pity.

He had become something worse than an object of pity: He had become a punchline.

West avoids predictable tropes in writing about Hannah’s disability, making her neither less than human nor an object of pity.

But in politics it effectively renders him an outcast, not to mention an object of pity and scorn to the profoundly cynical Republican political class he is trying to infiltrate.

For a country like this one to be the object of pity from other nations was truly a dark moment.