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Examples
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By blurting it out like that in front of the other tribe, he's pretty much announcing to the insufferables how to beat the pathetics.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Heroes vs Villains: Mission Implausible. 2010
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How someone thinks that her pathetics acts of ungraciousness will somehow benefit women in the future is beyond me.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008
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By blurting it out like that in front of the other tribe, he's pretty much announcing to the insufferables how to beat the pathetics.
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While others in his pod of pathetics were sternly holding up their white flags, he seemed ambivalent about hoisting his own placard.
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Gullible idiots like the 7/7 bombers, pathetics like Richard Reid and his shoe bomb, brain-washed like the Glasgow Airport doctors, though the brains behind that one managed to get off scot free [sorry Scotland!]
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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As Mr. Weller said this, he inflicted a little friction on his right eyelid, with the sleeve of his coat, after the most approved manner of actors when they are in domestic pathetics.
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Miss Pert, none of your pathetics, except in the right place.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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It is to let you know, that the pretty piece of art you found out to make me the vehicle of your whining pathetics to your father and mother, has not had the expected effect.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I find pathetics among them, and quaint humours, in my memory.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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-- I said it would be an attempt at the pathetics; -- it must be an attempt: -- I can proceed no farther.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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