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pathetic
adjective as in sad, affecting
Strongest matches
deplorable, feeble, heartbreaking, miserable, pitiful, poignant, sorry, woeful
Weak matches
commiserable, distressing, heartrending, inadequate, lamentable, meager, melting, moving, paltry, petty, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, poor, puny, rueful, tender, touching, useless, worthless, wretched
Example Sentences
Jan. 6 was still fresh in public memory, Trump was drowning in lawsuits and indictments, and the pathetic lies about the “stolen” 2020 election were getting stale.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her?”
"I remember her saying it was pathetic, 'it's easy for him to just write a letter'," he recalled.
And Reform UK reckons what the government has to say, and has done, is pathetic in comparison with the scale of the issue.
"The nurse came up to me and almost chuckled, like a kind of grin, and said 'You're being pathetic, like look at yourself'," Abby said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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