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Bathetic

adjective
1.
Effusively or insincerely emotional.  Synonyms: drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy.  "Maudlin expressions of sympathy" , "Mushy effusiveness" , "A schmaltzy song" , "Sentimental soap operas" , "Slushy poetry"






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"Bathetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion. At least, in tone it bordered on a fall; but the woman did ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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