pathetically

Adverb

Meaning

arousing scornful pity

in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion

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Examples

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop. Cintra Wilson

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. Franz Kafka

Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying. Diana Wynne Jones

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be. Gregory David Roberts

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way. Rupert Graves

On this occasion, despite the wind and sparkling stars, they looked just like huge chunks of stone, pathetically chiseled by desperate folk to resemble stern gods. People did bizarre things when they were afraid...as most men and women had been for nearly all the time since the species evolved. David Brin

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