How to Use pathetic in a Sentence
pathetic
adjective
- The blind, old dog was a pathetic sight.
- His car is a pathetic piece of junk.
- The story he told was a pathetic attempt to cover up a lie.
- The team was pretty bad last year, but this year they're downright pathetic.
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This @nickfuentes git is more pathetic than the most snowflakey (snowflake).
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Fox News,
22 Dec. 2019
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Most of it has been plagued by pathetic showings on the field.
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Scooby Axson,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2022
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There’s even been talk of the need for some sort of amnesty, which sounds pretty pathetic.
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Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes,
29 Oct. 2021
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That's not the most pathetic thing a man has ever done.
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Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
17 Jan. 2023
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The mum-and-dad state were to give the pathetic little creatures their due, thank you very much.
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The Economist,
8 Jan. 2020
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David James was bad at times, but this guy is just pathetic.
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SI.com,
24 Dec. 2017
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That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time.
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Rebecca Rosenberg,
Fox News,
5 May 2023
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It’s all so sad and pathetic, these games people play with the good people of this state.
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Joseph Goodman | [email protected],
al,
26 Oct. 2021
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Gotta keep the bowl-game money rolling in, of course, and that truth makes this next part so laughably pathetic.
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Joseph Goodman | [email protected],
al,
22 Sep. 2021
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On the Twitter, two Twitters, the tweets from 2010, is pathetic.
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Eric Johnson,
Recode,
5 Nov. 2018
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What the Tillerson test may reveal is what a pathetic group most of them are.
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Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2017
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Forster is perfect, and the tone of the scene — pathetic, comic, just weird enough to stick — promises good things to come.
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Michael Phillips,
chicagotribune.com,
28 June 2018
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The trees were thin and pathetic and nearly leafless at first.
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Rivka Galchen,
The New Yorker,
8 Feb. 2021
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The upcoming sequel to This Is Spinal Tap will be turning the pathetic knobs all the way to 11.
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Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
1 Nov. 2024
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They just got beat 19-16 by pathetic, lowly Washington, one of the worst teams in the NFL.
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Jeff Seidel,
Detroit Free Press,
24 Nov. 2019
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The gags are sophomoric and the overall story line is as pathetic as the concept.
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BostonGlobe.com,
17 May 2021
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One sweater-vest is pathetic, but four sweater-vests worn over sequinned miniskirts is a trend.
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Audrey Burges,
The New Yorker,
11 Sep. 2023
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This is, frankly, pathetic -- and is killing millions of people a year.
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Dr. Tom Frieden,
CNN,
30 May 2021
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Mike McCarthy’s clock management at the end of the first half was pathetic.
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Dallas News,
28 Sep. 2021
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The officer’s bluster is even more pathetic in the face of what all these guys have had to endure.
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Will Leitch,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2024
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The challenge here is putting into words just how pathetic that was.
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Matt Calkins,
The Seattle Times,
17 Dec. 2017
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And the way the LW speaks of his mother---who clearly only lied to spare them worry---is pathetic.
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Sahaj Kaur Kohli,
Washington Post,
22 June 2023
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The good news is that Pompeo is slightly less pathetic than Pence.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
31 Jan. 2023
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In the premiere, Martha is made to look as dumpy and pathetic—and then as unhinged—as possible.
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Judy Berman,
TIME,
19 Apr. 2024
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The over is the obvious bet here given the pathetic state of both defenses.
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Hank Gola,
New York Daily News,
6 Dec. 2024
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And, in the end, Charlie Brown's pathetic sapling became, with love, a magnificent tree.
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Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
30 Nov. 2024
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