Crossword-Solution: BATHOS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bathos | n. | A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BATHOS | anagram | BOSHTA |
We have 26 clues for the answer “BATHOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mawkish emotion. | 1 answer |
| Ludicrous descent from the elevated to the banal | 1 answer |
| Sudden switch from the serious to the silly | 1 answer |
| Anticlimactic change in tone | 1 answer |
| sudden change from a serious subject to a trivial one | 1 answer |
| Trivial anticlimax, in literature | 1 answer |
| Strained pathetic effect. | 1 answer |
| Mush or gush | 1 answer |
| Maudlinism | 1 answer |
| Insincere sentimentality | 1 answer |
| Insincere compassion | 1 answer |
| From the sublime to the ridiculous | 1 answer |
| False emotion, à la the weepy soap opera. | 1 answer |
| FALL from sublime to commonplace | 1 answer |
| Sappiness | 2 answers |
| Sentimentalism | 2 answers |
| Mawkishness | 4 answers |
| Schmaltz | 7 answers |
| Sentimentality | 8 answers |
| A PREDILECTION FOR SENTIMENTALITY | 9 answers |
| ANTICLIMAX | 10 answers |
| Crocodile tears? | 14 answers |
| relapse | 66 answers |
| Lessening | 76 answers |
| Reversal | 87 answers |
| Ruin | 100 answers |
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Sentences with BATHOS (5)
His soul danced with joy at that picture of starvation which is so good-humoured, of squalor which is so picturesque, of sordid love which is so romantic, of bathos which is so moving.
Moreover, there is a progression—I cannot call it a progress—in his work towards a more and more strictly prosaic level, until at last he sinks into the bathos of the prosy.
The first Lord Lytton is now a somewhat disparaged author, nor had Borrow any affection for him, considering him to belong to the kid-glove school; but Lytton's eloquence, though often playing him shabby tricks, now dashing his head against the rocks of bathos, now casting him to sprawl unbecomingly amongst the oozy weeds of sentiment, will keep him alive for many a long day.
The ladies each narrated the story of her marriage, our two Hebrews with the prettiest combination of sentiment and financial bathos.
The great failing of Protestants, in general, is a tendency to spring suddenly to the pinnacle of exultation, and as suddenly to fall to the lowest bathos of dejection, forgetting that the brightest day as well as the most gloomy night must necessarily have a termination.
Quotes with BATHOS (3)
Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
He pulls down one of my straps, slides his other hand in among the feathers, but it's no good, I lie there like a dead bird. He is not a monster, I think. I can't afford pride or aversion, there are all kinds of things that have to be discarded, under the circumstances. "Maybe I should turn the lights out," says the Commander, dismayed and no doubt disappointed. I see him for a moment before he does this. Without his uniform he looks smaller, older, like something being dried…
High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).