pathetic in the PONS Dictionary

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Iris could be pathetic, sympathetic and a tyrant.
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This is stated as pathetic, but the reader is put into a mood in which one would not try to alter it...
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I only saw it as a really pathetic little crush.
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The climactic ending of the mime may signify not a pathetic defeat, but a conscious rebellion, mans deliberate refusal to obey.
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The old intensity of pathetic and devout feeling gradually fades away and gives place to a noble, if more worldly, serenity and charm.
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We worked at a pathetic village miserable huts and dirty.
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This was the pathetic end of their overt resistance to the incursions of outside political authority.
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Yet with this idealism was joined a genuine and pathetic modesty.
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He's a pathetic character you first believe is the villain of the piece and then you realize that, no, he's not even close to that.
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A few other examples are as pathetic or comical.
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