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

The great majority of us are minor poets, but "poetaster," by definition, implies the accusation of "paltry," which, in its turn, is a sneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.

From Time Magazine Archive

For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

King Ludwig, himself at least a poetaster, hit upon a felicitous comparison, oft since reiterated, when he designated Overbeck the St. John and Cornelius the St. Paul in pictorial art.

From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington