- a hapless victim.
-  a message of hope for suffering humanity.
-  a pitiful fate.
-  a slimy little liar.
-  a wet miserable weekend.
-  a wretched life.
-  deplorable housing conditions in the inner city.
-  he felt depressed and miserable.
-  his poor distorted limbs.
-  miserable victims of war.
-  Oh, you poor thing.
-  piteous appeals for help.
-  pitiable homeless children.
-  spent a wretched night on the floor.
-  the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic.
-  the vile development of slavery appalled them.
-  ugly crimes.
-  woeful errors of judgment.
-  woeful treatment of the accused.
-  would do something as despicable as murder.
-  wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages.