Example sentences for: pathetically

How can you use “pathetically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sales of his new album are dismal, and reviewers complain that the music--five new songs and eight remixes of old ones--is pathetically recycled material.

  • Not simply because when he was a political writer he was considered pathetically in-the-tank for Clinton (see Chatterbox for 2/23).

  • I was young and, by today's standards, at least, pathetically innocent.

  • As Saturday Night Live skits-turned-movies go, this one "makes The Blues Brothers look like Kurosawa" (Susan Wlosczyna, USA Today ). A three minute skit about two pathetically eager "delusional poseurs" (Tamara Ikenberg, the Baltimore Sun ) who'll do anything to get into the Roxbury nightclub, is now an hour and a half of the same, which wears thin by the end.

  • Africa's hungry children are both pathetically weak and astonishingly powerful.


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