The whole house is a pathetic joke.

Order of the Bat'leth, he thought, shaking his head, what a sad, pathetic joke.

A pathetic joke called for a pathetic response.

To Worf, he looked like a pathetic joke, an aberration.

Your empire is history's most pathetic joke.

Perfumed with postwar disenchantment, he sees the pathetic joke in everyone, including himself.

Why does everyone feel obliged to make that same pathetic joke every time they talk to me?

As it is, the so called honours list is little more than a sad & pathetic joke.

They consider it proof positive that the Marxist system is a pathetic joke.

Waldegrave was killed because of what he knew, something about that pathetic joke.