It seemed a pathetically inadequate goodbye, but he couldn't think of anything else to say.

An average private pension pot of £30K is pathetically inadequate.

The population in the region is greater now, and evacuation plans are pathetically inadequate.

It included pathetically inadequate emission cuts that did not apply to most of the world.

He was a good old thing, but out of touch, pathetically inadequate.

No way could the plan possibly succeed with such a pathetically inadequate force.

The morsels seemed pathetically inadequate in the face of Night's giant reality.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet, what I've done is pathetically inadequate.

He wanted to fight back, yet felt pathetically inadequate before this hard and competent man.

I looked up when he said this, startled by such a pathetically inadequate observation.