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
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
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, we question whether the strains of any poetaster can be considered vile, when brought into comparison with this gentleman’s verses.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
