doggerel
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ChatGPT can turn out doggerel poetry or freshman and sophomore essays, pass tests on some technical subjects, write press releases, compile legal filings with a veneer of professionalism.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023
You can’t write doggerel for Burt Bacharach songs.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”
From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020
“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019
As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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