Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pathetic example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is considered inadequate or disappointing in comparison to a standard or expectation.
Example: "The presentation was a pathetic example of what we should strive for in our work."
Alternatives: "a poor representation" or "a disappointing instance".
Exact(3)
Perhaps Satrapi would be thoughtful enough to leave her cancerous lungs to medical science, to be displayed as a pathetic example to those willing to choose life.
Miguel Moutinho, the leader of Portugal's largest animal welfare group, who has gone so far as to step between a matador and a bull in the middle of a fight, calls the killing ban a "pathetic" example of Portuguese passive-aggressiveness.
But it's a pathetic example of an automobile compared to other U.S.-made cars.
Similar(57)
The argument that CO2 is beneficial for life and therefore not a threat is a sad and pathetic example of the worst kind of scientific illiteracy in which a little knowledge is terribly dangerous.
Living standards all across the region have plunged relentlessly.The most pathetic example is Abkhazia, once (give or take a few cockroaches) the Côte d'Azur of the Soviet Union.
Michael Noer article is the most pathetic example of backward thinking i think i have ever read(maybe with the exception of some of the very far right "conservativer").
Unlike my childish and pathetic example, demonstrate your equanimity -- even joy -- when others achieve; and resist at all costs the temptation to feel another's win is somehow your loss.
The so-called "tea parties" being promulgated by the Republican right are rather pathetic examples of what I mean by resurrective ideology.
As an example, there's Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" — this would be kind of a pathetic joke on a little screen.
What a pathetic instrument!
What a pathetic error!
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com