bathetic
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ɪk adjective
displaying or characterized by bathos: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.
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| —adj | |
| containing or displaying bathos | |
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Bathetic
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Example sentences
The end of the libel case was, in a way, rather bathetic.
The scene, which could have been bathetic, is a killer.
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