The Trumbulls had driven her to her pathetic state.

How could her obviously unrequited love have brought her to such a low, pathetic state?

The amount that would be left for things like restoring water and electricity seems very low, given recent information on the pathetic state of the country's infrastructure.

What a pathetic state to be in.

My eyes are puffy, my mascara is running, and who should see me in this pathetic state but my ex-husband.

In the second canto, he turns to Dante and asks from him pity for the pathetic state of his fatherland.

Janeway had reduced her to this pathetic state!

Instead they had begun a series of obnoxiously maudlin reports on the pathetic state of their home lives.

Jazz couldn't believe they had such little self-respect to allow themselves to get to such a pathetic state.

Then he realized that they were merely stopping to chortle, to enjoy the pathetic state that he had been brought down to.