# Looking for a word

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word/446897>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 25, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word/446897 "2008-04-25T21:08:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word/446897/21 "2008-04-26T18:56:20Z")

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“bathos.” Or maybe “melodrama.”

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