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the pathetic
adjective
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
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The pathetic fallacy is a category mistake.
"It's always Howard the pathetic," he said.
The Pathetic Old Gits or something.
Blotchy white skin, the pathetic hipness of the black lips.
SH It is the pathetic fallacy, isn't it?
(1835), showing the pathetic remains of the still-burning building.
That was literally the pathetic truth of the matter.
Hence the pathetic note in Goldin's midlife regression.
I recognised the pathetic, delusory nature of bourgeois freedom.
The pathetic 87 attempted calls on my iPhone.
Given the pathetic performance by Sanchez this year, Tebow really couldn't be much worse.
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