Bad and Pitiable

Bad

Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Pitiable and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pitiable" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Pitiable

Pitiable adjective - Deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy).
Usage example: a pitiable attempt at singing that generated snickers

Bad and pitiable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Pitiable".

Nearby Words: pitiful, pity, pitifully, pitied, pitiably

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Yanks with Tanks The middle ground is filled with pitiable soldier-victims, who remain sympathetic despite doing (very) bad things.
  • It really is amazing how bad the English accents are for these characters, both hilarious and pitiable.
  • The bad side: it's still a world where there are games between ancient evils and we are so pitiable and worthless that all of them but Dagon (and maybe Nyarlathotep) don't even consider us worthwhile pawns.
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