poetaster
Example Sentences
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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
Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you.
From Time Magazine Archive
For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a present-day poet along with many a poetaster and poeticule, follows the modern fad of writing a subjective Sanskrit all his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a satire on an English priest there, a wretched poetaster named Flecknoe.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
