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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: bathos + -etic (as in pathetic) Date: 1845 characterized by bathos • bathetically adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bathetic Ba*thet"ic, a. Having the character of bathos. [R.]