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a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations

the anticlimax of a brilliant career

Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven — a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

anti-climax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to the past

When Eliza, Lindsay, and I all finally stood up to walk to the ambulance to get bandaged up, the crowd stood and gave us a standing O. We went on to win the game big, but my topple made everything else anticlimactic.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland

anticlimactic = a decline in excitement or interest relative to a what was previous

God, that would be anticlimactic.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
He had done all that he. had wished to do, and to drag out a pointless life on this empty world would hive been unbearable anticlimax.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
It was thought an anticlimax, showing lack of appreciation of the night's feelings, that Gabriella came straight back.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Isabel stared back at her; the announcement was an anticlimax.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
Running away from home would be anticlimactic after Mexico, and a dull story after my month in the car lot.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By the time Leila persuaded him to give her a go at the controls, it was kind of anticlimactic.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
BRADY'S vanity and cussedness won't let him give up, even though he realizes this is a sputtering anticlimax.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
A siege would be a miserable anticlimax.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
But that seems kind of dismal and anticlimactic (there you go, Miss Tyler, my new vocabulary word for the day—and it means something like a letdown).
Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me
If so, it struck me as absurdly anticlimactic; I didn't want it to end in small talk, but I couldn't think of anything else to say.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
Isabel stared back at her; the announcement was an anticlimax.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Scarlett trailed after him, somewhat at a loss, a trifle disappointed as at an unexpected anticlimax.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
After the fun break with the Shelby County Drunk Four, the rest of the walk to Governor Wallace's headquarters was anticlimactic.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
Leaving was anticlimactic.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
Paralyzing in its brutal suddenness, it was the ultimate anticlimax for the white race.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
No, now it's completely anticlimactic," he grumbled.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
Mrs. Prkchard could not stand an anticlimax.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES

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