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doggerel

[daw-ger-uhl, dog-er-] / ˈdɔ gər əl, ˈdɒg ər- /




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ChatGPT can turn out doggerel poetry or freshman and sophomore essays, pass tests on some technical subjects, write press releases, compile legal filings with a veneer of professionalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Fenn’s doggerel had seven times seven types of ambiguity, enough to keep an estimated 100,000 fortune hunters poring over it for a decade.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2021

In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

Mac’s ability to elevate doggerel to verse—and to a mirror of his protagonist’s essence—is no small thing: it is the work of a real writer expressing depths in a popular form.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie




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