doggrel
- a variation of doggerel.
Example Sentences
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Whilst attending lectures he would sit and instead of copying out the lecture, would often scribble some doggrel rhymes among the notes of Lecture, particularly if he got hold of another student’s syllabus.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
The meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words "Orthodoxus Itermus:" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel translated.
From Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Tiresome doggrel of this kind was the strongest retort that the party of obscurantism could muster against the vigour, grace, and sparkle of Voltaire.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John
Mr. Swinburne calls the book "a worthless little Pg 36volume of stolen and mutilated poetry, patched up and padded out with dirty and dreary doggrel, under the senseless and preposterous title of The Passionate Pilgrim."
From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Ahmed was dazed at all this and the dim memories which the long-forgotten doggrel revived.
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
