"All I see is a pathetic excuse for a king and the folk who are going to stop him."

Never finding the time is such a pathetic excuse.

I've never heard of a more pathetic excuse for 'regulation' in my life.

Everyone needs to play fairly and by the rules instead of coming up with pathetic excuses as to why they should be exempt.

She was anchored now in a pathetic excuse for a harbor.

"Because I know the kind of pathetic, warped excuse for a human being you are?"

Nobody would fall for that pathetic excuse she'd made up.

Just this pathetic excuse for a human being standing before him.

And how sorry do we feel for this pathetic excuse of a human being.

He has just been alleging the pathetic excuse that she was old enough to be his mother.