doggerel
adjective
(of verse)
doggrel
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a variation of
doggerel.
Example Sentences
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It is wretched doggrel, and would make the play far too tedious.
From The Peace Egg and Other tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
The doggrel came clearly to their ears---- Here we sit like birds in the wilderness, Birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness; Here we sit like birds in the wilderness, Samuel asking for more.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
Bathing in Loch Fyne the next morning, he got horribly bitten by gad-flies, and vented his smart in a set of doggrel rhymes.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
Let me see what saith the doggrel: "Sir Thomas was too covetous To covet so much deer, When horns enough upon his head, Most plainly did appear."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Next in his defiant doggrel he calls on “Pliny and Trajan”—heathen learning and heathen power or goodness—to “come before Joseph of Arimathæa” and “listen patient.”
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
