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bathetic
[ buh-thet-ik ]
adjective
- displaying or characterized by bathos:
the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.
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- ba·theti·cal·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
Bad writing that thinks that it is rendering an erotically charged depiction of good sex seems to be far more bathetic.
The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion.
To esteem a man in inverse ratio to the amount of remarkable blood he has inherited is, to say the least, bathetic.
"O Stern Old Land" is a rather bathetic candidate for the national hymnship.
But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical bathetic.
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