ditties

Example Sentences

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The second season of Nida Manzoor’s comedic masterpiece about an all-female Muslim punk band is a ride of emotional highlights and jaunty fast-n-loud ditties.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

I think Sethi wants to emphasize that these ditties are fantasies, but the overall effect is too phony.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Boreson’s homespun ditties include the apropos: “Zero dacus, mucho cracus / hallaballu-za bub. / That’s the secret password that we use down at the club.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Instead, he played piano at enlisted men’s clubs in Japan and Hawaii, composing ditties deriding officers and senior noncoms in his unit.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright