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Meanings of pathetic in английском

Deserving or inciting pity.

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      Inspiring scornful pity.

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            Usage of pathetic in английском
            1
            There was something noble in his words and pathetic in the action.
            The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
            2
            The pathetic career of the Gracchi had much significance in Roman history.
            Early European History
            3
            It seemed that it was not ludicrous; it was only terribly pathetic.
            Lord of the World
            4
            There is something pathetic in this desertion of the ancient, central hearthstone.
            Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
            5
            Betty conjured her up, a charming and pathetic vision; but in vain.
            Senator North
            6
            And his pathetic strain had awakened the sympathy of the universal throng.
            Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
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            Thus there are two conditions in every kind of the pathetic: 1st.
            Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
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            Jane colored; a pathetic sadness tinged the far-away expression of her eyes.
            The Conflict
            9
            The poet touches the pathetic string that he may flutter the heart.
            The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
            10
            There is no such pathetic tragedy in the history of our profession.
            The Evolution of Modern Medicine / A Series of Lectures Delivere...
            11
            His is one of the few pathetic figures in our national history.
            Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
            12
            This gave him great power in the pathetic portions of his discourses.
            Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography
            13
            There was something very pathetic in the steady despair of his voice.
            The Lighted Match
            14
            The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
            The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
            15
            It was no longer a case of merely pathetic; more than that.
            Botchan (Master Darling)
            16
            His probable fate is best described in this pathetic verse, author unknown:
            Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the...
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