pathetic 的定义
- causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: Conditions at the refugee camp were far more pathetic than anything our training had prepared us for.
- Informal. miserably or contemptibly inadequate: In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest. The carpenter we hired is pathetic.
- Archaic. pertaining to, caused by, or affecting the emotions: pathetic outbursts.
pathetic 近义词
sad, affecting
更多pathetic例句
- There are some mattresses on the ground and a pathetic amount of necessities.
- Part of the fun of declaring yourself being based is getting to label the other side as weak, wrong and pathetic — and, well, cringe.
- This concept was just as sexist, but it at least recognized that women were powerful rather than pathetic.
- The story Dobbs tells is, by turns, hilarious, pathetic and infuriating.
- In the show, the joke is meant to be at Michael’s expense — look at this pathetic man, newly single and so desperate for love that he would settle for a woman he can’t even identify.
- And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made.
- But this had to be one of the most pathetic presidential wardrobes in American history.
- Telling people that you knew her when would just be pathetic.
- Fortunately, they are drawn from a pathetic preterite far beneath the contempt of our cultural elite.
- Conning people into buying a book to prepare for an "Ebola apocalypse" is not just irresponsible, it's pathetic.
- Tressan fell suddenly to groaning and wringing his hands a pathetic figure had it been less absurd.
- The observer might well remain perplexed at the pathetic discord between human work and human wants.
- It is curious to note children's first manifestations of a sense of the pathetic and the comic as represented in art.
- He was fond of the pathetic, but the humorous moved him most, and his lively gifts were welcome wherever we went.
- In spite of his brilliant career, Bernadotte must ever remain one of the most pathetic figures in history.