Synonym: deplorable, distressing, miserable, moving, pitiful, sad, touching. Similar words: aesthetic, athletic, by the time, all the time, at the time of, sympathy, for the time being, genetic. Meaning: [pə'θetɪk] 
adj. 1. deserving or inciting pity 2. inspiring mixed contempt and pity 3. inspiring scornful pity.
adj. 1. deserving or inciting pity 2. inspiring mixed contempt and pity 3. inspiring scornful pity. 
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31, It's pathetic that grown men have to resort to violence like this.
32, The movie's special effects are absolutely pathetic.
33, A pathetic figure, to be sure.
34, She's clever, but as a teacher she's pathetic.
35, It was all just like a pathetic fallacy.
36, Even worse, it sounded pathetic.
37, I just felt pathetic, ashamed, embarrassed and ugly.
38, Or maybe it hadn't been so pathetic.
39, A pathetic attempt to use proto-scientific methods to ascertain and then apprehend the transcendent.
40, Nothing, however, is more pathetic than a solitary corpse lying on a cold slab in a disused shed.
41, I have never heard a more hesitant and pathetic approach to the problem.
42, He sat huddled, looking pathetic and sorry for himself,(http://sentencedict.com/pathetic.html) and he would not smile.
43, It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack.
44, But each day the silence worked on me-and my pathetic longing.
45, I can't believe we wasted our money on that pathetic comedian last night.
46, The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. Edward Gibbon 
47, The most pathetic case was that of a middle-aged man with the mental age of a child of nine.
48, The forwards had a genuine hardness and solidity about them, a welcome sight after the pathetic shaven-headed posturing of recent years.
49, There is something pathetic about a 40-year-old man who still has his mother do his laundry.
50, Once there was a wayside inn, now a pathetic ruin.
51, She averted her eyes from the pathetic little piles of unsold merchandise in the grocery store.
52, Pathetic effort, the story's unusable, nothing more than an unsubstantiated libel.
53, With Western women, it was a psychological disorder, a pathetic response to the charge of never being good enough.
54, It was a pathetic gesture on my part, an irrational breach of the wall.
55, It has its moments but the joke wears thin after about ten minutes and the final hour is boring and pathetic.
56, That is a pathetic response to the size of the problem, which is extremely serious in my area.
57, It was rather pathetic, like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire.
58, How pathetic they had seemed at the time, how weak, their eyes blazing with fear, like trapped animals.
59, All Theda's earlier resentment faded with the onset of pity. How pathetic a creature she was, poor Lady Lavinia!
60, However, a second election took place in September of that year, which gave him a pathetic working majority of four.
More similar words: aesthetic, athletic, by the time, all the time, at the time of, sympathy, for the time being, genetic, anticipate, magnetic, participate, theoretical, participation, mathematics, whether, pat, rhetoric, on the table, patch, spate, patron, patent, patrol, pattern, spatula, patient, at the thought of, get in, let in, gather.