bathetic

Example Sentences

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The lead-up to Britain’s formal departure from the European Union, at 11pm on Friday, has made headlines mainly due to a somewhat bathetic row over Big Ben and church bells.

From The Guardian

Even within the narrow limits of royal baby tradition, it is surely more traditional for those connected with the crown to opt for what is known, rather bathetically in the circumstances, as a “home birth”.

From The Guardian

At the east, there are the glinting sheds of the new, bathetically named Solstice Park, an out-of-town business estate complete with a Costa, a McDonald’s and a Holiday Inn.

From The Guardian

“There is,” he adds bathetically, “something very special about this painting.”

From New York Times

Working-class men aren’t typically offered the opportunity to pen bathetic odes to their former glory in national publications – citing Lolita and Brahms, as Hockenberry did, to explain an apparent penchant for stalking.

From The Guardian