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
For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accordingly, though the book occasionally and happily deviates from its stated purpose, most readers will count Merrill Moore neither poet, poetaster nor poeticule, but a scientist drunk with words.
From Time Magazine Archive
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heroic man, who could endure agony and insult, and even thus commemorate his sufferings, with no unpoetical conception, almost degrades his own sublimity when the poetaster sets our teeth on edge by his verse.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
