"pathetic looking" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe something or someone that appears sad, pitiful, or inferior in some way. Example: The abandoned puppy was a pathetic looking creature, with matted fur and pleading eyes.
As Peter put it: "We need someone kind of pathetic looking, sort of pale and sallow from being inside too long at his desk.
We were set to shoot that scene, and I said to Bryan, "Would you be more comfortable in sweatpants?" He said, "What kind of underpants are more pathetic looking?
However, my biggest surprise was how amazingly beautiful the work is and I don't mean in a kitschy, tawdry or pathetic looking way, I mean flat out beautiful in a formal sense.
But while Nick came out of the episode unscathed, it marked the first and last appearance of Winston's truck, which has to go down as one of the most pathetic looking vehicles on television.
If the ball goes down the drain the game will play a mode-specific negative comment, for instance, in "True Lies" mode, Paxton would probably say "I got a little dick, it's pathetic!" Look it's Bill Paxton's family from the weird HBO show "Big Love"!
"Ambition" is hurled as an insult only at the female candidate; "crazy" has a faint whiff of hysteria in its implications; "pathetic" looks unnecessarily mean spirited in describing a woman who just won a state by more than 100,000 votes yesterday.
In Briggs's translation, it reads: "And Natasha's face had shone with happiness, though it also had a pathetic look as if to apologise for any happiness".
Maybe it was luck or maybe it was just the pathetic look on my face, but somehow Earl managed to persuade Leona to let me watch.
Allowing James Franco to desecrate the Renaissance reveals how pathetic we look beside the cultural heights of history.
What will our own pathetic remnants look like, feel like?
When Toyah came face to face with Phil, her first thought was how pathetic he looked.
