doggerel
adjective
(of verse)
doggrel
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a variation of
doggerel.
Example Sentences
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Could he marry his cousin amidst the trumpets, and the halo, and the doggrel poetry which would abound?
From Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
There it appears among the rugged doggrel, a piece of continental finery stitched into the homely Saxon garb.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
She observes that “his dulness may be a proper ballast for doggrel; and it is better that his stupidity should make jest dull than serious and sacred things ridiculous;” alluding to his numerous theological tracts.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
The lyrics are often very clever pieces of rhyming, totally different from the inane doggrel of the old opera-bouffes and burlesques.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
“I have been again reading Lord Houghton’s Life of Keats” he wrote, “whose hastiest doggrel should show Browning, Morris & Co., that they are not what the newspapers tell them they are.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
