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Definition
a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
- What had seemed a melancholy happening, now seemed a tiresome anticlimax.1.3 — The Egotist Considers (12% in)
- One really plays around so much before one is seventeen, that it's positively anticlimax.2.1 — The Debutante (43% in)
There are no more uses of "anticlimax" in This Side of Paradise.
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