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doggerel

noun as in poetry

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In the words of the old doggerel: The rain it falls alike, On the just and unjust fella.

Some scornful commentator has called this doggerel; but I would that all doggerel were as interesting.

The old words which Burns's songs superseded were wretched doggerel; not such were the ancient Greek heroic lays.

On the left wall, as one faces the choir, is a curious doggerel inscription to one Busbie.

He seems to have spent the greater part of his useless life in composing doggerel verses which he addressed to his sisters.

The Atlantic cable was a theme of inspiration for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to doggerel, such as: verse, paean, poems, poesy, rhyme, and rime.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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