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What is the adjective for pathetically?

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pathetic
  1. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
  2. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
  3. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “In her guise as a pathetic figure, she appears as a young woman who has been fooled by the promises of a faithless young man.”
      “His poetic accounting sums these facts up as a pathetic tale of a life of unremitting labor crowned by misfortune.”
      “By which I mean I will use the most pathetic excuses to avoid doing anything.”
pathetical
  1. (now archaic) Arousing sympathy; pathetic. [from 16th c.]
  2. Arising from strong emotion; passionate. [from 16th c.]
  3. Examples:
    1. “Our old vicar preached, taking leave of the parish in a pathetical speech, to go to a living in the city.”
      “How pathetical seemed to her the ignorance of the two men who were her companions in the cloistered house at this time.”
      “And then, having finished this pathetical little story of his misfortune, Mr. Mollett senior finished his glass of toddy.”
pathetisad
  1. (rare, colloquial) Pathetic: arousing scornful pity or contempt.
pathetique
  1. Obsolete form of pathetic.
pathetick
  1. Archaic form of pathetic.
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