doggerel
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Like much of Boston, it goes back to the Brahmins, the elite caste of the city, among whom, according to the doggerel, “The Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God.”
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
For 15 years, he wrote a long-form narrative every three weeks for the New Yorker; he’s also written shorter reported pieces, comic sketches and doggerel for the Nation, Time and elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024
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
We’re too busy to fiddle with construction paper and doilies, too sophisticated to scrawl out honeyed doggerel for each other.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2019
The only thing that seems even a little surprising is a bit of doggerel, a love poem in Prince Dain’s hand, about a woman who remains unidentified, except by her “sunrise hair” and “starlit eyes.”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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