1. Plural of bathos; instances or examples of a sudden, jarring drop from elevated or serious tone to something trivial, commonplace, or ridiculous.
Usage: Literary and rhetorical term; Often used in criticism of writing or speech

Examples

• The speech contained several bathoses, moving from profound statements about justice to complaints about the cafeteria food.
• Critics pointed out the bathoses in the film's dialogue, where dramatic moments were undercut by silly jokes.
• The poet's work suffered from repeated bathoses that weakened the emotional impact.
• The novel's bathoses made it difficult for readers to take the main character's struggles seriously.
• In his attempt at tragedy, the playwright created unintentional bathoses that drew laughter instead of tears.