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Sentence Examples Do you remember those charity infomercials with smiling white adults holding the hands of pathetically malnourished dark-skinned children? He gives a wonderful portrayal of the tongue-tied, misfit Sam, who is pathetically searching for someone to replace his dead mother. There is something pathetically sad about people who would seek to honor something so dishonorable. But no sound came from them, only a small breathy gasp echoed pathetically around the large kitchen. It's a pathetically old technology, especially for an industry that prides itself on such ostensibly smart devices, and it has to go. His father having died years before, Buck is suddenly alone, and pathetically unequal to the task. Postal workers are fed up with grafting harder and harder for a pathetically small pay packet and they have told their union they want action. He saw his mother lying pathetically on a pile of blankets serving as a makeshift bed. The options for dealing with so thoroughgoing a tyranny were pathetically limited. The park's administrators dumped its once-impressive wading pool for a sorry bunch of hoses that spray pathetically from time to time. My outrageous and pathetically demonstrative response arose in its entirety out of my sad and deeply personal unresolved childhood hurts. Their operations are pathetically undercapitalised, undermanned, and haphazard. Food shopping as I've said before is one of the highlights of my pathetically sad week. Standing up quickly, she watched the boy roll around on the floor pathetically, crying, gasping and retching. The north-east is a strategic area and yet coverage of events there is pathetically meagre. It seems to me that the schools were built next to each other as a pathetically tentative step towards integration. By now our carbide lamps were providing only a pathetically small amount of illumination. Reading will save me from looking too pathetically alone and friendless all day. She tried to sound firm when she spoke, but her voice wobbled pathetically in her own ears. Unable to get back to sleep, I headed down to breakfast, feeling groggy but pathetically pleased with myself. Show More Sentences He was pathetically indecisive and unable to leverage the most important window they had for a counter-attack. He attempted to explain their pathetically lame joke between gasps of laughter. After a few hours, the muscles on my pathetically puny arms were beginning to ache. I yank my hand out of his grasp and pathetically punch him in the shoulder. Sadly, pathetically, while he was hospitalised his neat single storey home was broken into and ransacked in an obvious search for money. And how did he go from endearingly pathetic to pathetically pathetic so fast? Aidan followed this by tripping Kale, causing him to pathetically fall to the ground. A pathetically forlorn figure, he set out to destroy all traces of the religion of his ancestors. A series of scuffles and bangs sounded from within the gloom and even Marlo winced once when something heavy fell, smashed and Atoshi squeaked pathetically. Chris's eyes strained on the pepper shaker and he scoffed pathetically. Some smoke grass, a few get stoned, most ingurgitate large quantities of beer, and all use constantly a pathetically tiny vocabulary of dirty words. His black hair drooped pathetically, still damp from the pool. And we walk on, pretending not to notice immigration reform lying over in the corner, coughing pathetically. Hackneyed and sterile, the Rockwell is ideal if you are looking for vastly overpriced drinks served by offhand waiters with pathetically slow service. He presented such a pathetically pitiful creature, I wanted to kill him. It lags pathetically behind on the technical possibilities for hiding or spoofing IP addresses. It cheats and it sweats and it eviscerates and procrastinates and it comes up pathetically short in almost every area. In 1939 Canada's army, navy and air force were pathetically undermanned and underequipped for war. It started out as a joke, a tease, but then one by one, each of us succumbed to the spirit of V-day and quite pathetically, whined about wanting a boyfriend. I found myself sad, abandoned, confused, and a pathetically depressed paralytic. Show More Sentences But the analysts at rand considered massive retaliation a pathetically crude idea, an atomic-age version of Roosevelt's big stick. Seeing an unbought stack glimmering pathetically in a window, the author averts his eyes. For one thing, they would involve spreading taxpayers' money pathetically thinly. Some of the failings may seem almost pathetically simple, but behind them is a complex web of flawed logic and confused psychology. We resolved to continue the investigation by our own means, though these were pathetically small. In 20th-century warfare, at least, most battle casualties have been pathetically youthful. For Castro, the dictator pathetically romanticised by many in Europe, these people are, however, a grave threat. The formal sector is characterized by pathetically low wages and benefits and by a universal lack of motivation. His wife, in a pretty mantilla, smiles pathetically and with a kind of apology when anyone looks. Instead, he has lurched pathetically, hopelessly from one failed relationship to the next, his biological clock going tick-tock-tick-tock. Gove is almost as pathetically starry-eyed about the ultra-rich as Tony Blair. How absolutely pathetically stupid, ridiculous and reprehensible that statement is. To its great shame, the United States has a pathetically weak labor law which makes it easy for employers to harass and punish workers who try to organize unions. While he tore off bits of fish, his family cried pathetically for a bite. The garlic tiger prawns were pathetically small, but what made the dish truly bizarre was that it was served with what appeared to be gooseberries. As he suffered derision upon derision, I am not certain whether I should call this Monterone unconvincingly pathetic, or pathetically unconvincing. Nowhere is this more pathetically obvious than in the party slogans. The priorities were terribly and pathetically misplaced as they are at too many American universities. Most pathetically, when first confronted by the Queen of Hearts, Alice does a face plant in the ground, out of fear and deference. She crossed her legs daintily, smoothing her hoop skirt, and glanced up at me pathetically, locking eyes with me for a moment, then returning to her own set's chatter. Show More Sentences She lives a pathetically lonely life with no companionship except her cat. I whimpered pathetically, then bit my lip and let the lorry go. The fledgling company pathetically traded as low as 50 cents a share. He continues his dire warnings of the inordinate amount of pestilence and death poised to descend on our pathetically unprepared continent the second we relax our vigilance. He was a feeble conspirator — charged with transmitting messages between dissidents, he felt pathetically conspicuous as he bicycled along Santiago's emptied-out streets — but the experience thrilled him. Beginning with John Robarts in Ontario, he explained, and continuing today, government leaders have played a pathetically small role in Parliament. It is a motion that is pathetically reactive in the extent to which it is attempting to engage in damage control in response to the raving reactionary ranting of the official opposition, the Canadian Alliance. A tornado-like storm ripped that proud tent to shreds, leaving bits of canvas flapping and fluttering so pathetically on the 88 foot high steel masts. Mr Védrine, caught up in the system after initially opposing the draft treaty, now rises pathetically to its defence, accusing the Irish of having succumbed to a kind of withdrawal instinct. Your own columnist, pathetically susceptible to moist eye and quavering voice, was especially affected by the prime minister's performance in Bournemouth. The world is searching pathetically for safety and prosperity. Fox News anchor Glenn Beck says the program reminds him of 1984, suggesting it will be forced on families with overweight children by the fat police. So far, so pathetically, vindictively crazy. Cancer prevention in Canada is pathetically underfunded and fragmented. In fact, such an approach has become institutionalised in the Tibetan establishment in exile and there is a pathetically naïve tendency to regard such self-defeating behaviour as devilishly clever and realistic. From a cosmic point of view, all minds are pathetically underpopulated. I am a promising Googler, and I am as pathetically hooked on Romenesko as you are. Progress has been made on some of the goals, in some regions, but there has been pathetically little progress on maternal mortality worldwide, and on many of the goals in sub-Saharan Africa. These means may seem pathetically inadequate in view of what is at stake. Carthage desperately and pathetically tried to make amends, executing the generals of the expedition against the Numidians, surrendering to Rome, and handing over hostages, armour, and artillery. Yes, I am pleased that the federal Liberals have listened to the province of British Columbia and the opposition and are making some movement, but it is pathetically short of what it should be. Show More Sentences The amount of money the government has given these people is pathetically small, given the impositions it has imposed on these workers and the challenges they have met. It is, of course, a good thing that the European Union has its own way, and that the outcome can be anticipated at this seminar, but it is all insubstantial, pathetically so. For 12 years, the best ideas of the Liberal government have been taken from the policy books of the two legacy Conservative parties and pathetically adopted in half measures. But the sales were pathetically low despite the mere 1,000 produced. Examples from Classical Literature Blake raged at that, impotently, pathetically, like an old lion with its teeth drawn. Seated by the stove was a pathetically old woman, with pendulous chin and rheumy eyes. Ay, said Mrs. Bairnsfather, shaking her head pathetically, it has been a great grief to her this downcome of young Strathoran. This, no doubt, will seem pathetically naive to most modern young men, who in this respect begin where I leave off. It was no longer a waxlike mask, but Henrietta, girlish and pathetically at rest. He looked at Gorman, pathetically anxious for some crumb of encouragement. He stared wide-eyed at Mr. Perkins, questioning him dumbly, pathetically. If I find him out, he just simpers pathetically and says he didn't want to upset me. The motif of the work is most beautifully and pathetically represented. I happened to be at that moment engaged in putting the case pathetically to our gifted Magdalen. It is a most pathetically pure, chaste presentation of a grand subject. A clumsy, forecastle method, and most pathetically engaging, to be sure! Her eyes were overbright and her lips pathetically tremulous. Don't sauce ME, in the wicious pride of your youth,' Mr Venus retorts pathetically. And the fearful thrashing he had given the inanimate Ziemianitch seemed to him a sign of intimate union, a pathetically severe necessity of brotherly love. I wail, pathetically, as Foxy and Ollie look on stony-faced. Befuddled by jet lag and overwhelmed by strange sights, sounds and smells, I'm a pathetically easy mark for hustlers and rip-off artists my first day or two in a new country. And she followed it with the everlasting plaint of the poor, pathetically mendacious, miserably authenticated by the horrible breath of cheap rum and soap-suds. There were some pathetically suggestive dumb witnesses present. More important, even if it were true, it would in no way abrogate historians' obligation to get at a humanly complete set of sources for so much pathetically misdirected rage. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of pathetically? Words that rhyme with pathetically What is the adjective for pathetically? What is the noun for pathetically? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words pathetic pathbreaking pathbreaker Pathankot pathanamthitta Pathan pathetic fallacy pathfinder pathfinders pathfinding pathic pathing 12-letter Words Starting With p pa pat path pathe pathet patheti pathetic pathetica pathetical patheticall