bathetic
adjective
displaying or characterized by bathos.
bathetically
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a word derived from
bathetic.
Example Sentences
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At the east, there are the glinting sheds of the new, bathetically named Solstice Park, an out-of-town business estate complete with a Costa, a McDonald’s and a Holiday Inn.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 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
During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically wander the streets of Paris, serenaded by muzzy folk singers and a bossa nova group whose sentimentality matches the scenario.
From Time Magazine Archive
