bathetic
adjective
displaying or characterized by bathos.
bathetically
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a word derived from
bathetic.
Example Sentences
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Even within the narrow limits of royal baby tradition, it is surely more traditional for those connected with the crown to opt for what is known, rather bathetically in the circumstances, as a “home birth”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019
“There is,” he adds bathetically, “something very special about this painting.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
Elsewhere, the rhetorical effort of making oneself clear proves bathetically futile.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2015
In the ode, however, the "asides" are spoken aloud, bathetically interrupting the elevated poem the speaker is presumably trying, and failing, to write.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2010
It is of course the familiar American Dream, bathetically symbolized by Winnebago's dying daughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
