Pathetic синоним

  • deplorable
  • feeble
  • heartbreaking
  • miserable
  • pitiful
  • poignant
  • sorry
  • woeful
  • commiserable
  • distressing
  • heartrending
  • inadequate
  • lamentable
  • meager
  • melting
  • moving
  • paltry
  • petty
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • plaintive
  • poor
  • puny
  • rueful
  • tender
  • touching
  • useless
  • worthless
  • wretched

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Tressan fell suddenly to groaning and wringing his hands a pathetic figure had it been less absurd.

ST. MARTIN’S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI

It is curious to note children’s first manifestations of a sense of the pathetic and the comic as represented in art.

CHILDREN’S WAYSJAMES SULLY

In spite of his brilliant career, Bernadotte must ever remain one of the most pathetic figures in history.

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WORDS RELATED TO PATHETIC

  • cheap
  • contemptible
  • crappy
  • grotty
  • inferior
  • miserable
  • pathetic
  • poor
  • rotten
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sub-par
  • third-rate
  • useless
  • worthless
  • affecting
  • ardent
  • disturbed
  • ecstatic
  • emotive
  • enthusiastic
  • excitable
  • exciting
  • falling apart
  • fanatical
  • feeling
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fickle
  • fiery
  • heartwarming
  • heated
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • hot-blooded
  • hysterical
  • impassioned
  • impetuous
  • impulsive
  • irrational
  • moving
  • nervous
  • overwrought
  • passionate
  • pathetic
  • poignant
  • responsive
  • roused
  • sensitive
  • sentient
  • sentimental
  • spontaneous
  • stirred
  • stirring
  • susceptible
  • tear-jerking
  • temperamental
  • tender
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • warm
  • zealous
  • alive
  • allusive
  • articulate
  • artistic
  • brilliant
  • colorful
  • demonstrative
  • dramatic
  • eloquent
  • emphatic
  • energetic
  • forcible
  • graphic
  • indicative
  • ingenious
  • lively
  • masterly
  • meaningful
  • mobile
  • moving
  • passionate
  • pathetic
  • pictorial
  • picturesque
  • poignant
  • pointed
  • pregnant
  • representative
  • responsive
  • revelatory
  • showy
  • significant
  • silver-tongued
  • spirited
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • striking
  • strong
  • suggestive
  • sympathetic
  • tender
  • thoughtful
  • touching
  • understanding
  • vivid
  • warm
  • abandoned
  • alone
  • bereft
  • blue
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • cynical
  • defenseless
  • depressed
  • deserted
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • destitute
  • destroyed
  • disconsolate
  • down and out
  • dragging
  • forgotten
  • forsaken
  • friendless
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • godforsaken
  • helpless
  • homeless
  • in the dumps
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • lost
  • miserable
  • oppressed
  • pathetic
  • pessimistic
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • solitary
  • tragic
  • unhappy
  • vain
  • weighed down
  • woebegone
  • wretched
  • afflicting
  • agonizing
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • calamitous
  • damaging
  • deplorable
  • dire
  • dismal
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • flagrant
  • glaring
  • grave
  • harmful
  • heart-rending
  • heavy
  • heinous
  • hurtful
  • injurious
  • intolerable
  • lamentable
  • monstrous
  • mournful
  • offensive
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • outrageous
  • pathetic
  • pitiful
  • sad
  • shameful
  • sharp
  • shocking
  • sorrowful
  • taxing
  • tough
  • tragic
  • troublesome
  • unbearable
  • upsetting
  • villainous
  • weighty
  • wounding
  • beggarly
  • contemptible
  • insignificant
  • meager
  • mean
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • niggling
  • paltry
  • pathetic
  • petty
  • picayune
  • piddling
  • pitiful
  • poor
  • puny
  • scanty
  • stingy
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • ungenerous
  • unimportant
  • valueless
  • worthless

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affecting, depressing, distressing, grieving, joyless, en.synonym.one, lamenting, melancholic, miserable, mournful, moving, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, regretting, sad, saddening, sentimental, sobbing, stirring, tender, touching, woeful, wretched, effete, hapless, ineffective, ineffectual, misfortunate, en.synonym.one, piteous, poor, ridiculous, silly, unable, useless, wet.

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1    affecting, distressing, harrowing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, melting, moving, pitiable, plaintive, poignant, sad, tender, touching  

2    deplorable, feeble, inadequate, lamentable, meagre, measly, miserable, not much cop     (Brit. slang)   paltry, petty, pitiful, poor, puny, sorry, wet     (Brit. informal)   woeful  

3      (slang)   chickenshit     (U.S. slang)   crappy     (slang)   crummy     (slang)   poxy     (slang)   rubbishy, trashy, uninteresting, useless, wanky     (taboo slang)   worthless  
  
Antonyms     
  

1    amusing, comical, droll, entertaining, funny, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous  

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pathetic

  

1       adj   If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them.  
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight…, She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.     

  pathetically      adv  
She was pathetically thin.     

2       adj   If you describe someone or something as pathetic, you mean that they make you feel impatient or angry, often because they are weak or not very good.,   (disapproval)
  
What pathetic excuses…, It’s a pound for a small glass of wine, which is pathetic.     

  pathetically      adv   ADV adj  
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.     

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  1. pathetic

    Pitiful originally signified full of pity; as, «the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy,» James v, 11; but this usage is now archaic, and the meaning in question is appropriated by such words as merciful and compassionate. Pitiful and pitiable now refer to what may be deserving of pity, pitiful being used chiefly for that which is merely an object of thought, pitiable for that which is brought directly before the senses; as, a pitiful story; a pitiable object; a pitiable condition. Since pity, however, always implies weakness or inferiority in that which is pitied, pitiful and pitiable are often used, by an easy transition, for what might awaken pity, but does awaken contempt; as, a pitiful excuse; he presented a pitiable appearance. Piteous is now rarely used in its earlier sense of feeling pity, but in its derived sense applies to what really excites the emotion; as, a piteous cry. Compare HUMANE; MERCY; PITY.

    Synonyms:
    abject, base, contemptible, despicable, lamentable, miserable, mournful, moving, paltry, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, sorrowful, touching, woful, wretched

    Antonyms:
    august, beneficent, commanding, dignified, exalted, glorious, grand, great, helpful, lofty, mighty, noble, sublime, superb, superior

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  1. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretchedadjective

    deserving or inciting pity

    «a hapless victim»; «miserable victims of war»; «the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic»- Galsworthy; «piteous appeals for help»; «pitiable homeless children»; «a pitiful fate»; «Oh, you poor thing»; «his poor distorted limbs»; «a wretched life»

    Synonyms:
    ridiculous, paltry, deplorable, scummy, woeful, slimy, execrable, suffering, scurvy, vile, low-down, despicable, inadequate, low, miserable, worthless, sad, piteous, hapless, lamentable, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, measly, poor, short, wretched, silly, sorry, pitiful, abject, unworthy, ugly

    Antonyms:
    dignified, fortunate, estimable

  2. pathetic, pitiable, pitifuladjective

    inspiring mixed contempt and pity

    «their efforts were pathetic»; «pitiable lack of character»; «pitiful exhibition of cowardice»

    Synonyms:
    distressing, poor, lamentable, deplorable, sorry, misfortunate, silly, pitiable, ridiculous, sad, miserable, piteous, pitiful, wretched, hapless

    Antonyms:
    fortunate, dignified, estimable

  3. pathetic, ridiculous, sillyadjective

    inspiring scornful pity

    «how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years»- Dashiell Hammett

    Synonyms:
    slaphappy, light-headed, nonsensical, hapless, ludicrous, giddy, poor, farcical, featherbrained, sappy, miserable, lightheaded, absurd, dizzy, laughable, airheaded, ridiculous, wacky, piteous, punch-drunk, cockeyed, misfortunate, pitiable, derisory, zany, silly, preposterous, goofy, wretched, empty-headed, pitiful, cockamamy, cockamamie, idiotic, whacky

    Antonyms:
    dignified, fortunate, estimable

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  1. List of paraphrases for «pathetic»:

    pitiful, pitiable, lame, miserable, ridiculous, derisory, regrettable, wretched, half-assed, lamentable, deplorable, lousy

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  1. Angela Carter:

    The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul — enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

  2. Helen Keller:

    The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

  3. Jon Favreau:

    It would look slightly pathetic if I tried to squeeze back into the Elf tights.

  4. Saki:

    Hors d’oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one’s childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like — and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d’oeuvres.

  5. Ryan Williams:

    He’s put together, for lack of a better word, a pretty pathetic political operation.


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  • patetiesAfrikaans
  • patètic, commovedorCatalan, Valencian
  • dojemnýCzech
  • patetisk, medynkvækkende, sørgelig, ynkeligDanish
  • gefühlvoll, rührend, erbärmlich, mitleiderregend, bemitleidenswert, jämmerlichGerman
  • patéticoSpanish
  • liigutav, haletsusväärneEstonian
  • säälittäväFinnish
  • pathétiqueFrench
  • פאטתית, פאטתי, קורע לבHebrew
  • दयनीयHindi
  • szánalmasHungarian
  • menyedihkanIndonesian
  • patetico, patetici, patetica, pateticheItalian
  • かわいそう, 哀れ, 痛ましい, 情けないJapanese
  • პათეტიკური, ამაღელვებელიGeorgian
  • meelijwekkend, deerniswekkend, zielig, sneuDutch
  • patetiskNorwegian
  • żałosnyPolish
  • patéticoPortuguese
  • patetic, emoționant, disperatRomanian
  • жалкий, душераздирающий, жалостныйRussian
  • pomilovanja vreden, ganljivSlovene
  • patetiskSwedish
  • பரிதாபகரமானTamil
  • విషాదకరమైనTelugu
  • dokunaklı, acıklıTurkish
  • 可怜Chinese

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[ pɐθˈɛtɪk], [ pɐθˈɛtɪk], [ p_ɐ_θ_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k]

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    • adj.

      crummy (adjective)

      • most secondrate,
      • more third rate,
      • grottiest,
      • most subpar,
      • more sub par,
      • second rate,
      • most inferior,
      • most third-rate,
      • second-rate,
      • most sub par,
      • grottier,
      • subpar,
      • secondrate,
      • sub par,
      • more thirdrate,
      • most thirdrate,
      • third rate,
      • more subpar,
      • more sub-par,
      • most third rate,
      • thirdrate,
      • most sub-par,
      • more third-rate.

      emotional (adjective)

      • over-wrought,
      • hotblooded,
      • excitable,
      • hysterical,
      • heartwarming,
      • hot-blooded.

      expressive (adjective)

      • forcible,
      • suggestive,
      • under standing,
      • more understanding,
      • under-standing,
      • most revelatory,
      • re presentative,
      • silvertongued,
      • re-presentative,
      • more revelatory,
      • silver tongued.

      forlorn (adjective)

      • be reft,
      • un happier,
      • un happy,
      • de stroyed,
      • un-happy,
      • be-reft,
      • in the dumps,
      • in dumps,
      • un happiest,
      • de-pressed,
      • forgotten,
      • down out,
      • de pressed,
      • de-solate,
      • de-stroyed,
      • de solate,
      • helpless.

      grievous (adjective)

      • dis quieting,
      • most afflicting,
      • more heart rending,
      • in tolerable,
      • more wounding,
      • most wounding,
      • egregious,
      • more afflicting,
      • dis-quieting,
      • un bearable,
      • in-tolerable,
      • most heart rending,
      • un-bearable,
      • more heart-rending,
      • most heart-rending,
      • up setting,
      • up-setting,
      • heart rending.

      lousy (adjective)

      • crummy.

      measly (adjective)

      • in significant,
      • un-important,
      • un generous,
      • piddling,
      • un-generous.

      miserable (adjective)

      • de-testable,
      • down mouth,
      • most agonized,
      • scurviest,
      • dis tressed,
      • pained,
      • dis-contented,
      • more agonized,
      • more suffering,
      • wounded,
      • most suffering,
      • most tormented,
      • most discontented,
      • most tortured,
      • Racked,
      • more racked,
      • on downer,
      • more anguished,
      • more tormented,
      • dis graceful,
      • most anguished,
      • most hurting,
      • most racked,
      • dis contented,
      • de testable,
      • more hurting,
      • down the mouth,
      • dis-graceful,
      • poverty stricken,
      • scurvier,
      • povertystricken,
      • more tortured,
      • dis-tressed.

      Other relevant words: (adjective)

      • scurvy,
      • grievous,
      • in the pits,
      • revelatory,
      • anguished,
      • heart-rending,
      • poignant,
      • soppy,
      • pitiful,
      • measly,
      • Bummed,
      • soupy,
      • lowdown,
      • on a downer,
      • down in mouth,
      • beefing,
      • SUBPAR.,
      • weak,
      • in pain,
      • tragic,
      • grousing,
      • miserable,
      • sub-par,
      • rosewater,
      • poor,
      • slushy,
      • lovey dovey,
      • third-rate,
      • down and out,
      • sentimental,
      • plaintive,
      • low-down,
      • over-emotional,
      • griefstricken,
      • overemotional,
      • emotional,
      • forlorn,
      • sobby,
      • syrupy,
      • lovey-dovey,
      • grotty,
      • tear-jerking,
      • woeful.

      plaintive (adjective)

      • more grousing,
      • out sorts,
      • wailing,
      • more bellyaching,
      • most saddening,
      • most beefing,
      • more beefing,
      • most grousing,
      • grief stricken,
      • most wailing,
      • most bellyaching,
      • more wailing,
      • more saddening.

      poignant (adjective)

      • in tenser,
      • more agitating,
      • in tense,
      • in-tense,
      • in-tenser,
      • in-tensest,
      • most agitating.

      poor (adjective)

      • poorer,
      • Commiserable.

      sad (adjective)

      • dis-composing,
      • most discomposing,
      • more dejecting,
      • more disheartening,
      • dis heartening,
      • more discomposing,
      • most disheartening,
      • dis composing,
      • dis-heartening,
      • most dejecting,
      • un-satisfactory,
      • de-pressing,
      • de pressing,
      • un satisfactory.

      sad, affecting (adjective)

      • heartbreaking,
      • heartrending,
      • paltry,
      • melting,
      • worthless,
      • petty,
      • inadequate,
      • meager,
      • puny.

      schmaltzy (adjective)

      • schmaltzy.

      sentimental (adjective)

      • more lovey-dovey,
      • loveydovey,
      • dewyeyed,
      • more rosewater,
      • in sipid,
      • most lovey-dovey,
      • more lovey dovey,
      • more syrupy,
      • softhearted,
      • more loveydovey,
      • dewy eyed,
      • most rosewater,
      • most loveydovey,
      • most overemotional,
      • over-acted,
      • most lovey dovey,
      • most simpering,
      • in-sipid,
      • over acted,
      • more simpering,
      • most syrupy,
      • more overemotional,
      • over emotional.

      tear-jerking (adjective)

      • tearjerking,
      • tear jerking.

      tearful (adjective)

      • blubbery,
      • tearful,
      • in tears,
      • teary.

      tragic (adjective)

      • illstarred,
      • un fortunate,
      • ill-starred,
      • ill starred,
      • more crushing,
      • most crushing,
      • un-fortunate.

      weak (adjective)

      • weakest,
      • forceless.

      woeful (adjective)

      • dis appointing,
      • most grieving,
      • dis-appointing,
      • heartsick,
      • more grieving.

      wretched (adjective)

      • more low-down,
      • in pits,
      • more lowdown,
      • most bummed,
      • more bummed,
      • more low down,
      • most lowdown,
      • low down.
    • n.

      • obscene.

      • painful,
      • upsetting,
      • terrible,
      • feeble,
      • unhappy.

      • pity,
      • rueful.

      contemptible (noun)

      • contemptible.

      Other relevant words: (noun)

      • lousy,
      • mournful,
      • ridiculous,
      • sad,
      • piteous,
      • sorry,
      • deplorable,
      • pitiable,
      • regrettable,
      • wretched,
      • touching,
      • silly,
      • hapless,
      • affecting,
      • moving,
      • distressing,
      • misfortunate,
      • abominable,
      • lamentable,
      • tender.

      pathetic (noun)

      • undignified,
      • unfortunate.
    • Other synonyms:

      • muted,
      • galling,
      • bothersome,
      • exasperating,
      • pesky,
      • futile,
      • nugatory,
      • footling,
      • flaccid,
      • vexatious,
      • spent,
      • invasive,
      • unbearable,
      • aggravating,
      • muddled,
      • moribund,
      • wheedling,
      • infertile,
      • purposeless,
      • bum,
      • defunct,
      • frustrating,
      • nonoperational,
      • Irksome,
      • useless,
      • vexing,
      • maddening,
      • facile,
      • infuriating,
      • Overworked,
      • outworn,
      • small-time,
      • damnable,
      • unhelpful,
      • flabby,
      • inefficient,
      • annoying,
      • otiose,
      • toothless,
      • pestilential,
      • defective,
      • ruthful,
      • pointless,
      • uninformative,
      • impossible,
      • irritating.

      • empty,
      • unproven,
      • inoperable,
      • paralyzed,
      • dysfunctional,
      • paper,
      • unreliable,
      • cumbersome,
      • ineffective,
      • porous,
      • bush-league,
      • anemic,
      • accursed,
      • unresponsive.

      • inactive,
      • idle,
      • temperamental.

      • old.

      • dead.

      eloquent

      • expressive.

    How to use «Pathetic» in context?

    When we use the word «pathetic«, we generally mean that something is very sad, disappointing, or weak. But when we use the word «pathetic» to describe ourselves, we often think of it in a more positive light. For example, If we say, «I’m so pathetic that I can’t even make a simple pot of coffee,» we may actually feel proud that we’re admitting our weakness and that we need help.

    Paraphrases for Pathetic:

    Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
    • Independent

      • Adjective
        abject, absurd, creep, crummy, despicable, dire, disappointing, disgraceful, dreadful, embarrassing, farcical, foolish, grievous, grotesque, hopeless, idiotic, insignificant, ludicrous, measly, mercy, paltry, parlous, petty, poignant, preposterous, regretful, second-rate, seedy, shabby, silly, sleazy, sorry, terrible, trivial, woeful, worthless, stupid, crappy.
    • Other Related

      • Adjective
        appalling, cheap, deplorable, depressing, derisory, dismal, distressing, lamentable, laughable, lousy, miserable, painful, pitiable, regrettable, ridiculous, saddening, sorrowful, tragic, unfortunate, wretched.
      • Interjection
        dreadful, terrible.

    How is the word pathetic distinct from other similar adjectives?

    Some common synonyms of pathetic are affecting, impressive, moving, poignant, and touching. While all these words mean «having the power to produce deep emotion,» pathetic implies moving to pity or sometimes contempt.

    pathetic attempts to justify misconduct

    How are the words affecting and moving related as synonyms of pathetic?

    Affecting is close to moving but most often suggests pathos.

    an affecting deathbed reunion

    When can impressive be used instead of pathetic?

    In some situations, the words impressive and pathetic are roughly equivalent. However, impressive implies compelling attention, admiration, wonder, or conviction.

    an impressive list of achievements

    When is moving a more appropriate choice than pathetic?

    The synonyms moving and pathetic are sometimes interchangeable, but moving may apply to any strong emotional effect including thrilling, agitating, saddening, or calling forth pity or sympathy.

    a moving appeal for contributions

    When could poignant be used to replace pathetic?

    While in some cases nearly identical to pathetic, poignant applies to what keenly or sharply affects one’s sensitivities.

    a poignant documentary on the homeless

    Where would touching be a reasonable alternative to pathetic?

    Although the words touching and pathetic have much in common, touching implies arousing tenderness or compassion.

    the touching innocence in a child’s eyes

    Варианты (v1)

    Варианты (v2)

    • pathetic [pəˈθetɪk] прил

      1. патетический, патетичный, пафосный

        (emotional, pathos)

      2. трогательный, проникновенный

        (touching, heartfelt)

        • pathetic scene – трогательная сцена
        • pathetic words – проникновенные слова
      3. печальный, грустный

        (sad)

      4. жалостный

        (piteous)

      5. жалкий, убогий

        (miserable, wretched)

        • pathetic loser – жалкий неудачник
    adjective
    жалкий pitiful, miserable, pathetic, sorry, wretched, pitiable
    патетический pathetic, pathetical
    трогательный touching, moving, heartwarming, pathetic, affecting, appealing
    жалостный pathetic, pitiful

    Предложения со словом «pathetic»

    Those of us in New York know there are some people in New York who are completely awesome, and some people who are pathetic .

    Мы, жители Нью — Йорка знаем, что есть в городе разные личности: невероятно притягательные, но и жалкие, с мелкой душонкой.

    And if you live in Iowa, some people are awesome and some people are pathetic .

    Будь вы житель Айовы — и там аналогичная ситуация.

    Especially useless, pathetic , annoying, talking donkeys!

    Особенно бесполезных, жалких, надоедливых, говорящих ослов!

    Although I have just saved his pathetic worthless life?

    Хотя я толЬко что спасла его жалкую никчёмную жизнЬ?

    In the course of several hours we met the monotonous and pathetic board huts of Negro farm workers.

    В течение нескольких часов навстречу нам попадались однообразные и жалкие дощатые халупы негров — батраков.

    After this pathetic attempt I plunged even deeper into my research and my reading.

    После этой жалкой попытки я еще глубже погрузился в мои изыскания и чтение книг.

    She is losing what’s left of her tiny, pathetic mind.

    Последние извилины убегают из ее маленького и убогого мозга.

    There are methods of torture that even your pathetic frame could endure.

    Существуют методы пыток, которые даже твое жалкое тело способно выдержать.

    I bring this pathetic tribute to the Lord Protector, and I’ll be whipped for my insolence.

    Я принесу эту убогую дань Лорду — Защитнику, и буду высечен за дерзость.

    To foul my hands with the blood of this pathetic creature, to receive the boon of an idiot…

    Испачкать руки кровью этого жалкого создания, получить дар от идиота!

    Your story is just a pathetic attempt to rewrite history and make yourself look good.

    Твой рассказ лишь жалкая попытка переписать историю и выставить себя в лучшем свете.

    Every copper of it. The headman reached out as if to grasp the major’s arm before he remembered himself and snatched his hand back, but his pathetic eagerness was plain to see.

    Староста протянул руку, как будто хотел коснуться ладони майора, но опомнился и отдернул свою руку.

    A suspected murderer, a pathetic wretch living with his mother, spurned again and again by the women he loved.

    Его снова и снова отвергают женщины, которых он любит.

    It’s pathetic and bad and disgusting and weird and lazy.

    Жалко и плохо, и отвратительно, и странно, и лениво.

    I was a widow out of work, with five children and a pathetic pension.

    Я была вдовой без работы, с пятью детьми и жалким пособием.

    He’s pulling the strings of his pathetic little voodoo marionette.

    Уже дергает за ниточки свою жалкую маленькую вуду — марионетку.

    She was the only one willing to understand the proud, pathetic little creature that you are.

    Она была единственной, кто хотел понять горделивое, жалкое существо, каким ты являешься.

    Already he’d forgotten the pathetic fondness that his brush with death had generated.

    Он успел позабыть трогательную нежность к этому месту, порожденную прикосновением смерти.

    You are just a fat, pathetic wannabe with no friends and no personality of your own.

    Ты просто жирный жалкий подражатель, у которого нет друзей и собственной личности.

    Even the fields themselves down here had seemed pathetic and frail, small scratchings in the wide space of the otherwise empty land.

    Даже сами поля здесь выглядели жалкими и хрупкими, всего лишь царапинами на широких просторах пустошей.

    Shackled to that chain gang, chipping away at rocks with that pathetic baby pickaxe?

    Скованный теми кандалами, постепенно откалывающий куски камня той жалкой маленькой мотыгой?

    Live out the rest of your lonely and pathetic and irrelevant life.

    Доживайте остатки своей одинокой, жалкой, ненужной жизни.

    A weak little boy who became an idiotic clown, who grew up to become a gutless, pathetic man.

    слабый мальчишка, ставший глупым клоуном, выросший в трусливого, жалкого человека.

    And I intend to make whatever remains of your pathetic existence a living hell.

    И я намерена превратить остаток дней твоего жалкого существования в ад.

    So you just want to treat me like some pathetic charity case you can throw money at.

    Так ты хочешь обращаться со мной, как с жалкой иждивенкой, которой сможешь подкидывать деньжат.

    Your pathetic excuses of late-night meetings and overburdened workload.

    О ваших трогательных извинениях за поздние консультации и сверхурочной работе.

    Those islanders and their pathetic seesaw haunt my dreams.

    Эти островитяне с их убогими качелями снятся мне по ночам.

    She had that face of a lost mother that is more pathetic than the face of a lost child.

    У нее был тот самый вид заброшенной матери, который гораздо трогательней, чем вид заброшенного ребенка.

    Potter lifted his face and looked around him with a pathetic hopelessness in his eyes.

    Поттер отнял руки от лица и оглянулся вокруг с выражением трогательной безнадежности в глазах.

    I merely resurrected those things which lay buried in the depths of her pathetic little mind.

    Я просто воскрешал те вещи, которые захоронены в глубине ее трогательно маленького разума.

    The way this girl and her big money, cruel heart society spit on everyone… is not interesting, it’s pathetic .

    Эта девушка и её большие деньги, общество жестоких сердец, которым на всех плевать… это не интересно, сплошная патетика.

    Your Majesty, do not be deceived by the pathetic ravings of two criminals trying to evade justice.

    Ваше величество, не верьте этому жалкому бреду двух преступников, пытающихся скрыться от правосудия.

    In a pathetic spectacle of incompetence, Japan’s economy is sinking, its public finances moving to junk bond status.

    В ходе душераздирающей сцены некомпетентности японская экономика падает, ее государственные финансы нисходят до статуса облигаций низшей категории.

    I couldn’t have done it without your pathetic self-loathing self-destructive desire to sacrifice yourself for your family.

    Я не смог бы этого сделать без твоего жалкого, самозабвенного самоубийственного желания жертвовать собой за свою семью.

    After I defeat you and become alpha lion, you’ll have more time to spend with your pathetic son.

    Когда я одержу над тобой верх и стану главным, у тебя будет больше времени на своего придурковатого сына.

    So, allow me this tiny little pathetic crumb…

    Позволь мне эту маленькую, крошечную, жалкую вещь.

    You are like every other pathetic , middle-aged man I have met in this town who’s convinced the fountain of youth is hidden in some 20-year-old’s panties.

    Ты такой же, как любой другой жалкий мужчина средних лет, что я встречала в этом городе, который убеждён, что источник молодости прячется в трусиках 20 — летних цыпочек.

    It is a depressing, pathetic record, which the UN is trying-probably in vain-to redeem by appearing, in the Iraq crisis, as the voice of reason and international legitimacy.

    Это угнетающий и жалкий список, который ООН старается — возможно, безрезультатно — искупить своим выступлением в Иракском кризисе в качестве голоса рассудка и международной законности.

    I suppose a very pathetic and vulgar question, but do you think he would be surprised that the Bayreuth is still going strong?

    Может, это сомнительный и грубый вопрос, но как вам кажется, он был бы удивлен тем, что Байройт до сих пор полон сил?

    The kinds of views of the universe which religious people have traditionally embraced have been puny, pathetic , and measly in comparison to the way the universe actually is.

    Взгляды на мир и вселенную, традиционно разделяемые религиозными людьми, всегда были неоригинальными, мелкими и жалкими по сравнению с тем, что в реальности представляет собой вселенная.

    The main questions are how authoritarian he will become, or whether this pathetic campaign will weaken him.

    Главный вопрос заключается в том, насколько авторитарным он станет после этих выборов и ослабит ли его эта жалкая предвыборная кампания.

    I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4.

    Я шла очень медленно, со скоростью всего каких — то жалких 1.3 узла, а им удалось разогнаться до чуть менее жалких 1.4 узлов.

    It’s clear I just inducted myself into the Halls of the Permanently Pathetic .

    Ясно, что я застрял в списке славы вечно жалких людей.

    Not gallery walls or pathetic humans!

    Ни стены музея, ни жалкие людишки!

    His eloquence is forcible and touching; nor can I hear him, when he relates a pathetic incident or endeavours to move the passions of pity or love, without tears.

    Он умеет говорить убедительно и трогательно; нельзя слушать без слез, когда он рассказывает о волнующем событии или хочет вызвать ваше сочувствие.

    He wondered if her current slumber was just a deception, a pathetic attempt to avoid further service to him.

    Смуглого убийцу занимал вопрос, не было ли ее временное забытье лишь попыткой обмануть его, чтобы избежать дальнейшей работы.

    I’m sorry San Francisco doesn’t have everything New York does, with your bedbugs, your cold, your pathetic excuse for a Chinatown.

    Уж извините, что в Сан — Франциско нет всего, что есть в Нью — Йорке, с вашими постельными клопами, с вашим холодом и жалким подобием Чайнатауна.

    And our ticket out of the limitations that bind us to these pathetic little bubbles of rock and air.

    А также — способ избавиться от ограничений, которые связывают нас с этими жалкими шариками из камней и воздуха.

    I went on a truly pathetic outing to the bowery ballroom.

    У меня была убогая вылазка в Боуэри.

    Then in a more pathetic tone, pushing up his spectacles and looking at the unfortunate scribe, The Lord have mercy on us, Fred, I can’t put up with this!

    Затем более проникновенным тоном, сдвинув на лоб очки и уставившись на злополучного писца: — Боже, смилуйся над нами, Фред, не могу я с этим примириться!

    She stared at both of them with pathetic disdain.

    Она задиристо, с театральным презрением взглянула на своих оппонентов.

    There had been something helpless and pathetic in that still face which had accused her.

    Его застывшее лицо было таким беспомощным и жалостным, оно обвиняло ее.

    You’re a pathetic coward!

    Вот как, ты настолько труслив! Жалкий трус!

    And what is time travel but your pathetic attempt to control the world around you.

    А что есть путешествие во времени без вашего жалкого стремления контролировать окружающий мир ,

    I tried to explain Mike’s pathetic attempts to be a people.

    Я попытался объяснить жалкие потуги Майка стать человеком.

    If I read it and it sucks, then I have to endure his pathetic attempts and give him feedback.

    Если я прочитаю, и это окажется хренью, мне придётся терпеть его жалкие потуги и как — то комментировать.

    But the real queen, not this sniveling, pathetic , diluted creature I see before me.

    Но настоящая королева, а не это жалкое, сопливое, слабое существо передо мной.

    Your attempts to elicit an emotional response by reminding me of shared memories is clumsy and pathetic .

    Твои попытки вызвать эмоциональный отклик, напоминая об общих воспоминаниях, неуклюжие и жалкие.

    You’re gonna die here, you pathetic junkie!

    Ты сдохнешь тут, жалкая дрянь!

    Goodbye, Harold Gray, you pathetic , nonprofit do-gooder.

    Прощай, Гарольд Грэй, жалкий ты бессребреник.

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