ditties
Example Sentences
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Hopkins kept playing, and even wrote little ditties on staff paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The second season of Nida Manzoor’s comedic masterpiece about an all-female Muslim punk band is a ride of emotional highlights and jaunty fast-n-loud ditties.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
I think Sethi wants to emphasize that these ditties are fantasies, but the overall effect is too phony.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Boreson’s homespun ditties include the apropos: “Zero dacus, mucho cracus / hallaballu-za bub. / That’s the secret password that we use down at the club.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
