poetaster
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
Humbert Wolfe, 55, actory-looking poetaster and Deputy Secretary of Britain's Ministry of Labor; in his sleep; after complaining previous day of a chest pain; in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century.
From Time Magazine Archive
For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Le Satyrique, Valère, a spiteful and hypocritical poetaster, is intended partially at least for Diderot.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
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