What a pathetic waste.

Lena asked, wondering who on earth would hire such a pathetic waste.

The waste, the pathetic waste of such a young life made her unbearably sad.

What's done is done, Tremayne would say, but one couldn't wipe out an enveloping feeling of pathetic waste.

Labour really is a pathetic waste of space: cut a little less and a little more slowly but what difference does this make?

This one is just a pathetic waste of taxpayer money.

He looked back at the corpse, the pathetic waste of it, and understood his wife perfectly.

End this drivel now, it is a pathetic waste of money and time.

It just seems like such a pathetic waste.

Ian you're a pathetic waste of space.