It really seems like we are ignoring basic functionality here, in a fairly pathetic way.

Anorexic and pathetic, with a head way too big for her body.

That's the most pathetic way people have of growing.

He is ashamed of Vivian, and loves her in his own pathetic, cowardly way at the same time.

What a pathetic way to die, she thought, looking up at the thug's half-lit face.

Besides which, he would never have glanced my pathetic way.

"It is a pathetic way to design a business model."

It's the most tired, pathetic way to campaign for the presidency.

We home-office loners compensate for our lack of community in myriad, pathetic ways.

Nelson criticized the project as a pathetic way of "trying to cash in."