Sentence examples for pathetic from inspiring English sources
pathetic
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
- The child's pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man's heart.
"pathetic" is a word that is both correct and usable in written English. It is a word that is used to describe something that is pitiful, contemptible, or inadequate. For example: "The team's performance was pathetic; they scored no points and lost by 20.".
You are a pathetic loser and a joke.
It's extremely bad form to deride another county's earthquake, however hilariously pathetic and underwhelming it was, unless you either come from the affected region or were a former inhabitant.
The attempt to cut out Davis's through ball to the scorer was quite pathetic, allowing Naismith to roll the ball past Olejnik from only eight yards.
There is something uniquely pathetic about the parent who realises their smacking days are over because their once pliant, now muscular, child rises to height and hits them back.
But Sharon Claydon, the Labor MP for Newcastle, which also suffered ABC job losses and programming changes, said the argument that the cuts were political is "pathetic".
The prime minister's pathetic refusal to go podium-to-podium with his principal rival is the most important reason for that.
I once felt the same about the pathetic criticism of Clive James, but then he was nice about my daughter.
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