Due to pathetically low interest rates, there's little point in keeping money in our personal accounts.

I recall one awful story after another about pathetically low verdicts in this county.

"At the moment, the government's acquisitions fund is pathetically low."

In the more than two decades since then, there has been ample study and debate on achievable improvements to what is by now a pathetically low standard.

He checked the power level and it was pathetically low.

The films, often shown back to back, were plugged with garish posters that promised more than their pathetically low budgets could deliver.

Illustrating the pathetically low output of such a system, it is successful for only a handful of seconds while using dozens of potatoes.

The country's most serious economic ill is its pathetically low rate of savings.

In most of the public sector, which makes up 90 percent of the workforce, salaries are pathetically low.

In the United States, the personal savings rate is pathetically low, hovering in recent months around zero.