0 a sudden change from a beautiful or important subject to a silly or very ordinary one, especially when this is not intended
The closing words of the speech approached dangerously near to bathos.
The plot shows none of those alarming pieces of incongruity and bathos which have marred some of her stories.
Ordinarily, such sequences produce only bathos when their final terms are so incongruously weighty (and, as in the case of "sacrilege," imperfectly rhymed).
There is bathos in the movement of language to the moralism of capitalist 'evils'.
What is more, they were accomplished manipulators of pathos and bathos.