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
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great majority of us are minor poets, but "poetaster," by definition, implies the accusation of "paltry," which, in its turn, is a sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.
From Time Magazine Archive
But jealousy of his fame could be found among men of much higher pretensions than this wretched poetaster.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
