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The phrase "was getting pathetic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or behavior that is becoming increasingly sad or disappointing over time. Example: "His excuses for not showing up were getting pathetic, and it was clear he wasn't taking the commitment seriously."
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I started to feel that something was wrong with me, and that the whole situation was getting a bit pathetic.
Birmingham is just getting pathetic".
"Its citizens deserve more than the partisan, petty and pathetic leadership it's getting at the moment".
"But after a while it's got to be seen as pathetic".
It was OK to get pathetic production from Alcides Escobar and the right field position last season because mainstays like Kendrys Morales, Lorenzo Cain (despite his three homers on Tuesday) and Alex Gordon were producing above their career averages.
All they got are those pathetic C.S.R.T.s".
Otherwise, when one vegan protester approaches the grill to inform them that hot dogs are disgusting, the only joke we get is the Pathetic Millennial whispering "she's ruining our BBQ" to the camera.
"Tee to green was good but it was just pathetic when I got on to the green," McIlroy said after signing for his 69, a five-shot improvement on round one.
One of the few I got right (my score was a pathetic two out of ten) was a guy with caramel skin, who, I guessed correctly, was Puerto Rican.
Anything is fair game, and anybody who gets upset is as pathetic as the women in her old platoon who couldn't hack Sandhurst and quit.
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