bathos
Example Sentences
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To give credit where it’s due, few films wear their bathos with such pride.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
It is what Alexander Pope would call bathos.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023
If that doesn’t work, they can always fall back on tear-jerking bathos and sentimental clichés.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2021
The foremost risk in such a setup is bathos: the poor kid!
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2019
Surely there must be something here for us, other than this futility and bathos.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
