The word "stingy" doesn't even come close to accurately describing the administration's pathetic initial offer of aid.
Perhaps the police, who were wearing body armor and were armed with taser guns, shotguns and semi-automatic weapons, will take a page from the pathetic apology offered by Trayvon's killer: "We're sorry for your loss".
Two of the appeals court's three judges weighed in, openly criticising the buy-out, with one calling Mr Li's offer "pathetic" and "outrageous .Coverage of the trial in the local papers was out of all proportion to the deal's value of just $2.2 billion.
He offered pathetic excuses that he "can't remember" and "you know it must have been kids playing".
The coalition government's only notable reactions to the underachievement and alienation of young men has been to rail against deadbeat dads and to offer a pathetic cash bribe to couples as a reward for marriage.
While that's bad enough, what's worse is watching the most senior so-called law enforcement officials in our country offer one pathetic excuse after another for why they have so grossly failed to do their job.
There I discovered several excellent works of Tonalism and Impressionism by Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf and Mary Cassatt, and an absorbing painting by Thomas Eakins, titled "Singing a Pathetic Song" (1881), that offers an evocative depiction of the old-fashioned home musical.
The FCA has finally stepped in during recent weeks to highlight some of the pathetic returns currently being offered, so let's hope this spurs on providers to up their game and savers to take their custom elsewhere in search of better-paying products.
I remember witnessing the most pathetic response a man offered a woman who refused his advances.
