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Meanings of
bathetic
in English
Effusively or insincerely emotional.
sentimental
maudlin
mushy
slushy
soupy
mawkish
hokey
soppy
drippy
kitschy
Related terms
emotional
Synonyms
Examples for "
sentimental
"
sentimental
maudlin
mushy
slushy
soupy
Examples for "
sentimental
"
1
The morning breeze is to the strong the moonlight of the
sentimental
.
2
The defense of reputation has two aspects: the practical and the
sentimental
.
3
But it's not a fluffy, cute or
sentimental
story, quite the contrary.
4
No; it was not a
sentimental
story-itwas the old sea-fight again.
5
Businesses were not
sentimental
just because there was a ceasefire, she said.
1
However, it did seem to bring him out of his
maudlin
humour.
2
She sighed, aware that the drink had sent her into self-pitying
maudlin
.
3
There shall be permitted no
maudlin
sentiment of pity in this undertaking.
4
They stopped at the gate to bid each other a
maudlin
farewell.
5
Until you chuck that
maudlin
bunch of slush and scenery at us.
1
They had
mushy
undertones but they were good movies with defined intentions.
2
The splinters were gone from it now; it was growing soft,
mushy
.
3
And don't get all
mushy
on me-notthat that's likely to happen.
4
No matter how
mushy
Custer sounded, she wanted to finish the interview.
5
Just don't tell Dave that, he already thinks I'm way too
mushy
.
1
Road surfaces are very
slushy
,
the Southland District Council advised this morning.
2
The voice that came over the ship channel was
slushy
and drugged.
3
Technology turned those sounds into taps on
slushy
snow or hard ice.
4
Myrrima crept along the edge of the wood, walking in
slushy
snow.
5
The next step I took filled my hiking boots with
slushy
ooze.
1
His head was a
soupy
mess, and it was hard to focus.
2
Chasing her down would be no great task, given her current
soupy
condition.
3
A young male voice, cranked tense with chemicals, floated across the
soupy
water.
4
You want this chowder to be
soupy
but not too thin.
5
A faint but welcome breeze stirred like a ladle through the
soupy
fog.
1
He wrote her a
mawkish
letter; read it; and tore it up.
2
Given the pair's songwriting proclivities, one might have expected something unspeakably
mawkish
.
3
Now here's where the case gets both real interesting and real
mawkish
.
4
Cue that dreadful,
mawkish
Saturday Night Live Hallelujah thing with Kate McKinnon.
5
A
mawkish
regard for delicacy might have kept this disclosure to yourself.
1
Unchaperoned, though, recent seasons have subsided into a swamp of
hokey
backslapping.
2
It's just
hokey
atmospherics, of course, but it sends a message.
3
Without being
hokey
,
it makes me feel hopeful about the future of humanity.
4
Really
hokey
,
but really scary and weird at the same time.
5
That would be a lot less derivative and just as much
hokey
fun.
1
Expect a lot of
soppy
loved up tunes from here on in.
2
And she would certainly not get
soppy
about a marriage like theirs.
3
My cotton just became
soppy
and I was ever so much heavier!
4
I hadn't meant to get all
soppy
like this today anyway.
5
Humane liberalism is at the
soppy
,
shameful heart of this indefensible seal hunt.
1
Granted, June and Harry start off so
drippy
their scenes require damp-proofing.
2
Can
drippy
Rebecca lift those feet that seem nailed to the stage?
3
She nodded and wiped at her
drippy
nose with a clean handkerchief.
4
Gone is the great, jazzy theme, criminally replaced by some
drippy
electro pap.
5
And a queer creature in
drippy
white came crawling out of-
1
Yes, the clothes and music of the 1980s might seem
kitschy
now.
2
I've never seen Fengdu as anything but a cheap,
kitschy
tourist trap.
3
The
kitschy
culture and fickle habits that infested your forever-adolescent America.
4
In the beginning, it was a
kitschy
trifle, a grassroots kind of thing.
5
They're cute, a little
kitschy
,
and actually still kind of inspiring.
1
It's the middle finger to every
schmaltzy
prom film you've ever seen.
2
It was a saccharine performance of the
schmaltzy
pop-soul number Love on Top.
3
Not the fairy-tale brand of love, saccharine and
schmaltzy
,
but the enduring kind.
4
I'm not being
schmaltzy
here, or maybe I am, but I'm also being sincere.
5
I feel like kids' movies are now always animation or
schmaltzy
or PG13 superhero films.
Usage of
bathetic
in English
1
A face that could carry extremes of emotion and not look
bathetic
.
2
But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical
bathetic
.
3
To Jude's eye the effect of such efforts was always
bathetic
.
4
Other than the
bathetic
speech-making, there's virtually no drama in this misbegotten hokum.
5
All faces turned to him with a kind of
bathetic
wonderment.
6
Previous generations used to laugh at some of Wordsworth's simplest things, seeing them as
bathetic
.
7
I am sure the Master-Musician is too great an artist to allow a
bathetic
anti-climax.'
8
Even the newspapers caught the
bathetic
tone.
9
Indeed to the
bathetic
,
if you like.
10
And it gets worse, a
bathetic
bit of recipe seemingly concocted by someone who knows nothing about real holomorphy.
11
Its head bobbed frantically from side to side, but despite its terror, it could only emit a
bathetic
cooing.
12
Towards the end, a dramatic effusion of My Way is a
bathetic
cop out from the sad and sordid reality.
13
The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the
bathetic
conclusion.
14
An eventual suggestion that Mary Bay represents the spirit of American womanhood seems sentimental at best and
bathetic
at worst.
15
It sounded so
bathetic
.
16
Dooku's elegant farce has degenerated into
bathetic
melodrama, and not one shed tear will mark the passing of its hero.
Other examples for "bathetic"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
bathetic
Adjective
Frequent collocations
so bathetic
always bathetic
bathetic anti-climax
bathetic bit
bathetic conclusion
More collocations
Bathetic
through the time