Pathetic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
Example sentence: Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.
Wretched
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserableHatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Example sentence: How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.