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Meanings of pathetic in inglés
Deserving or inciting pity.
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Usage of pathetic in inglés
1
There was something noble in his words and pathetic in the action.
2
The pathetic career of the Gracchi had much significance in Roman history.
3
It seemed that it was not ludicrous; it was only terribly pathetic.
4
There is something pathetic in this desertion of the ancient, central hearthstone.
5
Betty conjured her up, a charming and pathetic vision; but in vain.
6
And his pathetic strain had awakened the sympathy of the universal throng.
7
Thus there are two conditions in every kind of the pathetic: 1st.
8
Jane colored; a pathetic sadness tinged the far-away expression of her eyes.
9
The poet touches the pathetic string that he may flutter the heart.
10
There is no such pathetic tragedy in the history of our profession.
11
His is one of the few pathetic figures in our national history.
12
This gave him great power in the pathetic portions of his discourses.
13
There was something very pathetic in the steady despair of his voice.
14
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
15
It was no longer a case of merely pathetic; more than that.
16
His probable fate is best described in this pathetic verse, author unknown:
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