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жалко adv.stresses
gen. it grieves (me)
жалкий adj.
gen. piss poor; crummy; despisable; pathetical; silly; threepenny; woesome; ugly (Notburga); meagre (Notburga); feeble (Arleyn); demi semi; three farthing; worm; miserable (Vadim Rouminsky); pitiable; wretched; abject; pitiful; woeful; shabby; beggarly; impoverished; measly; paltry; pimping; piteous; poor; ratty; rueful; rundown; scrannel; sordid; sorry; squalid; down at heel; lowlife; queachy; ruthful; three-farthing; caitiff; despicable; forlorn (Syn: miserable , wretched Andrey Truhachev); hangdog; parsimonious; tacky; pathetic ("Сам он сбежал, охрана сбежала, персонал разбежался... Жалкий конец президента", – написал Пушков в своём твиттере в субботу. ... The Russians also appeared to distance themselves from Yanukovych. "He has run away, his security and staff have run away – What a pathetic end for a president," wrote Alexey Pushkov, the hawkish head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee, on Twitter. theguardian.com 4uzhoj); scrubby; despondent; puny (dms); run-down; lamentable; sheepish (вид Abysslooker); petty little (petty little bureaucrat – жалкий бюрократишка Taras); desperate (ra-gorahte); deplorable; niggardly; so-and-so; wormling; miserly (о сумме Ремедиос_П); lachrymose; low; paddy; scabbed; scald; scrubbed; skald; decayed; petty (Nikita_Volk)
Gruzovik sorry-looking; lame
Игорь Миг feckless (Do I look like some feckless thief?); mediocre (см. mediocre existence); flimsy (см. flimsy excuse)
amer., slang jeasely; jeasly
austral., slang rotten; with one's tail between one's legs
contempt. demi-semi
disappr. hole-in-the-wall
formal deplorable (same as "miserable" Val_Ships)
hist. precarious (scrape a precarious living – влачить жалкое существование Шандор)
idiom. blow chunks (Interex)
inf. punk; seedy; sixpenny; numpty (andriy f); tatty; brutal (VLZ_58)
invect. stank ass (о человеке Taras)
Makarov. mean; paperbacked; sad; thin
med. scurvy
obs. veriest (SirReal); roynish; woful
rel., budd. forlorn
rude snotty (kee46)
slang hot mess (lavagirl); nebbish; crumby; neb; weak sauce (urbandictionary.com NGGM)
uncom. prone
vernac. scaly
vulg. crappy
yiddish. nebich (MichaelBurov); nebbishy (MichaelBurov)
жалко adv.
gen. miserably; too bad (Yokky); that's too bad (bookworm); what a waste (triumfov); have a hard time parting with something (Tanya Gesse); poorly; low; piteously; woefully; lamentably; pathetically; lamely
Gruzovik pity (as pred); feel sorry for (ему жалко себя – he feels sorry for himself); grudge (мне жалко отдавать деньги – I grudge the money); it is a pity; it is a shame; it grieves me; regret; sorry; wretchedly; pitifully
inf. can't spare (если тебе жалко пару баксов, так и скажи – if you can't spare a couple of bucks, just say so SirReal)
obs. lachrymosely; paltrily; wofully; sorrily
жалко: 381 phrases in 26 subjects
Advertising1
American usage, not spelling1
Architecture1
Australian3
Bookish / literary1
Chess2
Childish2
Contemptuous1
Derogatory1
Figurative1
Figure of speech1
General219
Humorous / Jocular1
Idiomatic6
Informal32
Ironical1
Librarianship1
Literature3
Makarov83
Obsolete / dated4
Pejorative2
Religion2
Rhetoric1
Slang9
Trade unions1
Veterinary medicine1