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Example sentences for: pathetic

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This message has induced some liberal pundits to call the Promise Keepers pathetic, thereby undermining NOW's portrayal of them as dangerous bullies.
Jaws drop; people fall all over themselves; buddies, goggle-eyed, take you aside: "How did you manage that ?" What a shallow, empty, and pathetic reverie: having one's worth enhanced by a gorgeous celebrity.
Is this an admirable show of open-mindedness, a pathetic demonstration of low self-esteem, or inevitable mindless worship of whatever is "hot"?
He may have been the greatest, but now he's reduced to a pathetic bundle of nerves."
Having recently returned from Calcutta, where the extent of the poverty was almost inconceivable to me, I now have even less sympathy for pathetic preppies who have to beat up each other to feel authentic.