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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pathetic one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that evokes pity or is considered inadequate or disappointing.
Example: "His excuse for being late was a pathetic one, lacking any real justification."
Alternatives: "a pitiful one" or "a sorry one".
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"It is simply a political ploy and a pathetic one at that," he said.
No ideas, no fight, no chance of another shot at the Premier League that they left behind in 2008 – having garnered a pathetic one win and 11 points during that woeful campaign.
When he discusses his troubles at work, transformed by a minor heroism by the Gentleman Caller, it's a hopeful story, not a pathetic one.
The story was a pathetic one.
"How do you know them?" A pathetic one, yes, but all parents ask it.
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As political acts go it's a faintly pathetic one - putting a book 'on trial' reveals far more about the Pastors' fears and desire for publicity than it does about the book - but he's more than welcome to do so.
Going to a local clinic run by a women's group, she encounters outside a schoolmate who is holding a rather pathetic one-person pro-life vigil.
The encounter of giants – Godzilla meets King Kong!" Lodge's Wells is a monster, too, but a lovable and sometimes pathetic one.
I know, I'm the pathetic one: a grown woman talking like an insecure teenager about total strangers trying to have a nice time.
He was a friend, but he was the most pathetic one of our friends, so we'd always pick on him.
You look pathetic," my mother would tell me then, but she was the pathetic one.
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