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bathos

/bey-thos, -thaws, -thohs/US // ˈbeɪ θɒs, -θɔs, -θoʊs //UK // (ˈbeɪθɒs) //

浴场,浴缸,浴池,浴盆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.
    • : insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.
    • : triteness or triviality in style.

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Examples

  • My colleague Michelle Cottle does a great job today of capturing the Sturgesesque bathos of the Liz Cheney “campaign.”

  • Rather like the way of life it celebrates, The Radetzky March hinges on trivia and bathos more than any real grand gesture.

  • In the Guildhall yard the cab would happen, if it happened at all, naturally and without any effect of bathos.

  • The arrangement of the words or clauses in a descending order is called anticlimax or bathos.

  • To say that the morsels fetched their weight in gold would be the reverse of exaggeration—mere bathos.

  • "The ghost of God," I answered, in what she must have thought a tone of bathos!

  • He is prone to eccentric flights, to bathos and absurdities.