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Meanings of bathetic in English

Effusively or insincerely emotional.

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Usage of bathetic in English
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A face that could carry extremes of emotion and not look bathetic.
Imajica: Complete Edition
2
But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical bathetic.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith
3
To Jude's eye the effect of such efforts was always bathetic.
Imajica: Complete Edition
4
Other than the bathetic speech-making, there's virtually no drama in this misbegotten hokum.
Reuters
5
All faces turned to him with a kind of bathetic wonderment.
The last page
6
Previous generations used to laugh at some of Wordsworth's simplest things, seeing them as bathetic.
The Guardian
7
I am sure the Master-Musician is too great an artist to allow a bathetic anti-climax.'
The Trespasser
8
Even the newspapers caught the bathetic tone.
Washington Irving
9
Indeed to the bathetic, if you like.
The Irish Times
10
And it gets worse, a bathetic bit of recipe seemingly concocted by someone who knows nothing about real holomorphy.
The last page
11
Its head bobbed frantically from side to side, but despite its terror, it could only emit a bathetic cooing.
Perdido Street Station
12
Towards the end, a dramatic effusion of My Way is a bathetic cop out from the sad and sordid reality.
The Irish Times
13
The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
14
An eventual suggestion that Mary Bay represents the spirit of American womanhood seems sentimental at best and bathetic at worst.
The Irish Times
15
It sounded so bathetic.
The Scar
16
Dooku's elegant farce has degenerated into bathetic melodrama, and not one shed tear will mark the passing of its hero.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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