doggerel

How To Use doggerel In A Sentence

• A popular bit of doggerel underlined their usual futility in this fashion: ‘Washington, first in war, first in peace, last in the American League.’
• Both doggerel and fourteeners appear in the quaint productions called _Three Ladies of London_, etc.; but by this time the decasyllable began to appear with them and to edge them out. A History of Elizabethan Literature
• If this is not done, as in what we call doggerel rhyme, an effect of grotesque is universally produced, to the ruin of serious poetic effect. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
• Verbal abuse and insulting ditties, ballads, limericks, and other doggerel had long been directed at the monarch, his ministers, close family, and mistresses as well as at the elites of the kingdom by their social inferiors.
• At that time the eighteen-year-old Victoria's feminine virules of sympathy and beauty were proclaimed in doggerel verse to the street ballad-reading public.
• This is the type of truly bad language-mangling doggerel written by old ladies that appears on the letters pages of local newspapers.
• Their cries and shouting broke their doggerel rhythm into a chaos of shouts in which the words Truth and Rupert were most prominent.
• His education at Gonzaga ranged from the classics to Irish doggerel and limericks, which he could quote appropriately with astonishing effect.
• I always made sure that it was filled with the finest comic doggerel, epigrams, and songs of a light-hearted nature.
• It was sometimes amusing or even witty doggerel, but doggerel, and everyone knew about his voice.