The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BATHOS
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More clues leading to the result BATHOS
- Spa — huge disappointment
- British mountain provides disappointment
- Crazy house internally a big let-down
- Hit hard by huge anticlimax
- Spa city’s huge feeling of anticlimax
- Nothing found in location of a dip or severe descent
- House cracked externally — something of a comedown
- House with crazy exterior is let-down
- City then back? Anticlimax
- Hit hard — huge anticlimax
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What does BATHOS mean?
BATHOS noun- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- Depth.
- (the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
- (the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.