みじめ
みじめ · mijime · JLPT N2 · na-adj
pitiful
🥀 Sounds like me-jee-me: the whiny poor-me sigh of someone sad and wretched
The kanji 惨 (misery, cruelty) is often written for this word. It describes a state of being pitiful or wretched, often after being humiliated or left in a sorry condition.