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The expression "be pathetic" is grammatically correct, and can be used in informal written English to mean "to be pitiful or deserving of pity".
For example: "The state of his house was pathetic - crumbling walls and dusty furniture everywhere."
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be pathetic
adjective
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
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That would be pathetic.
For those wrongfully evicted, it would be pathetic.
That may be pathetic, but it's no fallacy.
Their boorishness may be pathetic, but it's much less destructive than the masculine misbehavior of yore.
A certain number of the collections seem intended to be pathetic.
And if so, might it be pathetic, something better kept to myself?
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The infrastructure is pathetic.
They're pathetic.
It is pathetic".
And Martin was pathetic.
That is pathetic.
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