Possible Clues:

• Hopelessly inadequate
• Pitiable
• Woeful epic that's in need of editing
• Sadly inadequate
• Sad passage to quote in turn
• Poor state back on course
• Wretched route, and the rest restricts one
• Sort of fallacy arousing contempt
• Arousing pity, miserably inadequate
• You'd weep for a small way to cite the wrong way