I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...
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Bathos
//ˈbeɪθɒs//
Synonyms for "bathos" (52 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 3 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- valse pathos noun (overdone pathos)
French
2 entries- bathos noun (unintentional failure at artistic effect)
- mauvais pathos noun (overdone pathos)
German
1 entries- Bathos noun (unintentional failure at artistic effect)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.
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How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!
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I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
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