| Postal workers are fed up with grafting harder and harder for a pathetically small pay packet and they have told their union they want action. |
| And how did he go from endearingly pathetic to pathetically pathetic so fast? |
| Unable to get back to sleep, I headed down to breakfast, feeling groggy but pathetically pleased with myself. |
| By now our carbide lamps were providing only a pathetically small amount of illumination. |
| The north-east is a strategic area and yet coverage of events there is pathetically meagre. |
| Sadly, pathetically, while he was hospitalised his neat single storey home was broken into and ransacked in an obvious search for money. |
