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Examples
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Mr. Fugard's two characters, Zach (Colman Domingo) and Morris (Scott Shepherd), live together in a pathetic-looking one-room shack built out of cardboard boxes and corrugated iron.
Waiting for Mandela Terry Teachout 2012
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Jocky Wilson was a pathetic-looking mess of a human being, middle-aged in his twenties.
Why are English sporting heroes so dull? | Kevin McKenna 2011
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It was time now to face my practical-minded husband, time to come up with an explanation for this pathetic-looking, plastered "plank" -- and there would not be time to collect all of the fallen keys from the floorboard: Jean-Marc was approaching the car, like one of those husbands who can sniff a spousal "spenditure" from two farm fields away.
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It was time now to face my practical-minded husband, time to come up with an explanation for this pathetic-looking, plastered "plank" -- and there would not be time to collect all of the fallen keys from the floorboard: Jean-Marc was approaching the car, like one of those husbands who can sniff a spousal "spenditure" from two farm fields away.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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I suppose it was, if you're the pitying kind - those pathetic-looking creatures in their shapeless coats, with the irons on their feet, some yelling, some pleading, some Indifferent, some silently weeping, but mostly just sunk in shame - and out in front Hewitt and Carmichael-Smith and the rest sat their horses and watched, unblinking.
Fiancée 2010
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It was time now to face my practical-minded husband, time to come up with an explanation for this pathetic-looking, plastered "plank" -- and there would not be time to collect all of the fallen keys from the floorboard: Jean-Marc was approaching the car, like one of those husbands who can sniff a spousal "spenditure" from two farm fields away.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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It was time now to face my practical-minded husband, time to come up with an explanation for this pathetic-looking, plastered "plank" -- and there would not be time to collect all of the fallen keys from the floorboard: Jean-Marc was approaching the car, like one of those husbands who can sniff a spousal "spenditure" from two farm fields away.
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It was time now to face my practical-minded husband, time to come up with an explanation for this pathetic-looking, plastered "plank" -- and there would not be time to collect all of the fallen keys from the floorboard: Jean-Marc was approaching the car, like one of those husbands who can sniff a spousal "spenditure" from two farm fields away.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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It seemed ridiculous that such a pathetic-looking animal as a tribble could pose so great a threat.
In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002
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It seemed ridiculous that such a pathetic-looking animal as a tribble could pose so great a threat.
In the Name of Honor Dayton Ward 2002
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