bathetic
Example Sentences
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That they’re all various degrees of bonkers and/or bathetic is the joke, though it’s not always easy to distinguish between this more strenuously underlined absurdity and regular Wesworld whimsy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
All Kubrick did was make “The Shining” 10 times scarier and 75 percent less bathetic than the book.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2020
For someone who once sang “It doesn’t matter if we all die”, Smith has an endearing relish for the bathetic comedy of life.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2018
Meanwhile, he piles on the drama in implausible and bathetic ways: a death row inmate who survives a botched execution; an autistic family member who unknowingly passes along deadly information; several seizures.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2016
But, in its context, this isn’t delivered for comic or bathetic effect.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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