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noun • triteness or triviality of style • insincere pathos • a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | ||||||||
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noun • addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | ||||||||
44% | 12 | Feeling a sense of anticlimax | ||||||
verb • To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly. | ||||||||
From The Greek For Depth And Introduced In Its Literary Sense By Alexander Pope An Anticlimax Or Ludicrous Descent From The Sublime To The Ridiculous In Speechwriting Crossword Clue
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Updated: October 12, 2023
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