All 3 Uses of
pathetic
in
Great Expectations
- "No, don't be hurt," she pleaded quite pathetically; "let only me be hurt, if I have been ungenerous."†
Chpt 35
- "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.†
Chpt 54 *
- I wrote it as fervently and pathetically as I could; and when I had finished it and sent it in, I wrote out other petitions to such men in authority as I hoped were the most merciful, and drew up one to the Crown itself.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(pathetic as in: Her pathetic look saddened us.) pitiful (arousing pity)