bathetically
- 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
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
They are terrified of their fathers, but bathetically sentimental about their doting mothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
