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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Noun(7 words)
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goohearts-and-flowersheavinessheaviness of heartheavy heartheavyheartednessmaudlinnessmawkishnessmushmushiness
Noun(5 words)
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namby pambynamby-pambynamby-pambyismnamby-pambynessnostalgianostomaniaoversentimentalismoversentimentalitypathosromanticismsadheartednesssadnesssentimentsentimentalismsentimentalityslopsloppinessslushsoap operasob story
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sweetness and lighttearjerker
Noun(4 words)
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15 entriesaffective stylecloseclosingconclusionemotional effectendendingexpressive styleliterary deviceliterary techniquerhetorical devicesentimentalitystylestylistic featuretone
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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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