poetaster
Example Sentences
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
Humbert Wolfe, 55, actory-looking poetaster and Deputy Secretary of Britain's Ministry of Labor; in his sleep; after complaining previous day of a chest pain; in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics.
From Time Magazine Archive
A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster: 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wordsworth has told the story in a copy of verses which shows, like so much more of his work, how dreary a poetaster he could be.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
