Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. | (now uncommon) Depth. | (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
How to use Bathos in a Sentence?
There may be a still deeper descent; but that is bathos sufficient for any lover of his species.
But the actual descriptions of the process in the Reimerdes case smack more of bathos than terror.
For that brief flash the reporter had been lifted out of his bathos and tawdriness into a clearer element.
Two gentlemen who had all but reached the smug bathos of a mutual admiration society turned astonished eyes at the intruder.
Short Example Sentence for Bathos
The answer is somewhere between bathos and pathos.