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Bathetic

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Adjective

1. bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy

effusively or insincerely emotional

Example Sentences:
'a bathetic novel'
'maudlin expressions of sympathy'
'mushy effusiveness'
'a schmaltzy song'
'sentimental soap operas'
'slushy poetry'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Bathetic

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adjective
containing or displaying bathos

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Bathetic

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adjective
characterized by bathos

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Bathetic

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adj.
Characterized by bathos.

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