doggerel

Example Sentences

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Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

“I found out that I could do it, too. I still tremble at the memory of a certain Linda listening breathlessly to my doggerel on her front steps.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

Mac’s ability to elevate doggerel to verse—and to a mirror of his protagonist’s essence—is no small thing: it is the work of a real writer expressing depths in a popular form.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

David Orr writes eloquent, amusing and circuitously disapproving commentary on the retching doggerel by Charles Bukowski, whose reputation far exceeds his literary accomplishments.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019

As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie