un-pathetic

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

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adj

"Listening to George Jones unpack his mistakes and shortcomings was a distraction from your own mistakes and shortcomings; here is a man who is just as pathetic as you are in your worst moments, and yet you’ll never be as un-pathetic in those times as he was."

From un- + pathetic.

more un-pathetic (comparative) most un-pathetic (superlative) unpathetic (alternative)

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