All 4 Uses of
pathetic
in
Main Street
- A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.†
Chpt 2
- Carol had noted Mrs. Dillon dragging past the house during a bridge of the Jolly Seventeen, looking in with pathetic lips at the splendor of the accepted.†
Chpt 17
- In the spring Kennicott had pathetically volunteered, "S'pose you'd like to get in a good long tour this summer, but with Gould and Mac away and so many patients depending on me, don't see how I can make it.†
Chpt 24
- Rather pathetic: rich man poking around and trying to be useful.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
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(pathetic as in: Her pathetic look saddened us.) pitiful (arousing pity)