subliterature
noun
writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
subliterary
-
a word derived from
subliterature.
Example Sentences
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Philip Roth, in “Reading Myself and Others,” called the unsent letter “a flourishing subliterary genre with a long and moving history.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924, and it made its money mostly, and happily, with subliterary fare.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
Instead, they beg for subliterary stories populated by branded characters from TV and movies.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2016
Memoirs were dismissed as unseemly, sensationalistic, and subliterary.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2015
Ned Ward of Grubstreet; a study of subliterary London in the eighteenth century.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
