Deserving or inciting pity.
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Examples for "silly "
Examples for "silly "
1 He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
2 I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
3 Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
4 They were just silly , ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
5 The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
1 No, not ridiculous ; only a simple idea, and great in its simplicity.
2 The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
3 We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous ; we want taste.
4 His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk.
5 The scene was interrupted in an unexpected and ridiculous manner-thetelephone rang.
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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