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UK
/bˈɑːθəʊz/
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NOUN
- insincere pathos
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
- triteness or triviality of style
How To Use bathos In A Sentence
- I think the correct term is "bathos" - an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. Politicalbetting.com
- This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity The Pontiff Is In...
- I'm slipping into bathos at record speed here tonight; a function of happiness, I suppose.
- Not everything he does works, but Antopolski deliberately uses anticlimax and bathos in his material.
- The leaden bathos, insincere congratulations and lickspittle teasing were all cringingly, mesmerisingly grisly. Times, Sunday Times
- Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire.
- There had been no mad paroxysm of love, with the inevitable bathos.
- But in fact, despite my scientific interest in describing languages as they actually are, I am as free as anyone else to have negative reactions to unintentional bathos or unhelpful confusion caused by bad writing.
- Missing hyphen, misrelated participle, and bathos apart, this sentence founders on the embarrassing misconception of the tone of trendy. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
- Blurb bathos is a killer, because it’s actually really fun and easy to be blurb bathetic in the same way it’s fun and easy to write a bathetic poem. About Reviews : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation