Words similar to pathetic

Example sentences for: pathetic

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Mortifyingly enough, it is all there: the difficulty, the laziness, the pathetic formlessness in youth, the round peg in the square hole, the "whatever do you want?"
Otherwise, "[d]ecadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times ). (Watch the trailer.)
Anyone who began hiking/climbing/skiing/boarding the day before you did is considered an experienced pro; you and all those who purchased their fleece jackets the day after you did are pathetic wannabes.
Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.
But they tend to fall into one of three dreary categories: pathetic pseudo-macho western (e.g.