Meanings of pathetically inadequate in English

To be blunt, Britain's response to the Iraqi refugee crisis has been pathetically inadequate.

Initial measures to rein in public spending were pathetically inadequate.

Anything he said would be pathetically inadequate.

The words were pathetically inadequate.

He slipped off her dainty shoes, pathetically inadequate for such an experience, and rubbed her feet back to feeling.

How humiliating to be so pathetically inadequate an outcome of such long and elaborate preparation,-themouse of a genealogical mountain!

Conservationists and climate campaigners said the pledge, to be taken to the United Nations meeting in Paris in December, would be " pathetically inadequate".

"What do I tell her?" The reassuring hands found his shoulders again, patting, offering their pathetically inadequate sympathy.