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
Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
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
The annalist who does not enable us to see mankind in real events, is as unnatural as the poetaster who substitutes monstrosities for men in fictitious events.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
