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Example sentences for: pathetic

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After I got off the phone I just couldn't leave the pathetic animal there to suffer, so I took Kitty to an animal hospital where he was treated for a deadly cat stomach problem.
There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.
Yesterday the Journal and today again the Times had front-page pieces on how utterly stupid and pathetic and evil and beneath the dignity of any halfway civilized human being (OK, so they didn't necessarily use those exact words) the whole "managed" health-care system is.
But by the end, he cannot imagine being loved by any human being at all and comforts himself with the pathetic idea that perhaps the fungus growing on the late-autumn soggy ground is offering him, in some spongy vegetable manner of its own, the acceptance he craves.
Sorensen, whom Hersh portrays as a Kennedy toady, has been especially nasty in denouncing it as "a pathetic collection of wild stories."