Pathetic
Pathetic adjective - Deserving of one's pity.
Wounded and pathetic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wounded" instead an adjective "Pathetic".
Nearby Words: pathos, pathetically, pathetics
Both words in one sentence
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Granted, he had already been seriously wounded (if not crippled) by Mace Windu, so he was a lot weaker... but still, that's pathetic.
Source: Narm / Star Wars - Cass, overcome with guilt, goes to try to find the servant in order to buy her back and give her her freedom; he ends up getting mortally wounded for his troubles and suffers a pathetic death.
Source: Literature / All the King's Men -
In a way, as everything Sheriff Teasle from First Blood tried to do was to prove what Korean War vets are made of after being shunned for so long and to uphold the law in his duty as a policeman, yet now he's wounded in a pathetic state and is about to take more flak then he's ever before imagined.
Source: Alas, Poor Villain
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