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What does pathetic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pathetic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
  2. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
  3. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
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There was no way I could stand another year in Andrews in my pathetic job which wasted my talents.
It is pathetic and woeful, and it is a slap in the face of the victims of this country.
Both were reduced to pathetic caricatures of themselves by the height and steepness of the bunker face.
Owen Hughes says Tuesday night was a pathetic and woeful effort which he was extremely embarrassed and angry about.
Its abdication of responsibility pertaining to right wing talk radio is particularly pathetic.
But they did real warm-downs in those days, son, not like the pathetic imitations I see today.

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