Pathetic and Shameful

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Pathetic

Pathetic adjective - Deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy).
Usage example: the crowd mercilessly booed the boxer's pathetic performance
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Shameful and pathetic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shameful" instead an adjective "Pathetic".
Nearby Words: pathos, pathetically, pathetics

Shameful

Shameful adjective - Not respectable.
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Pathetic and shameful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pathetic" instead an adjective "Shameful".
Nearby Words: shame, shameless, shamed, shaming, shamelessly

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  • When All You Have Is a Hammer He will dodge anything (including the Nuke weapon you might have fired on him in Sector 5) that isn't the Shotgun or Buster Gun, because he thinks dodging such pathetic weapons is shameful.
    Source: When All You Have Is a Hammer
  • However, the idea that cancer was not shameful was so shocking to early 20th century readers that some believed Trollope instead meant to show the patient as a pathetic malingerer who claimed to have cancer so she could get the doctor to feel her breasts.
    Source: The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
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