dog·ger·el
ˈdȯ-g(ə-)rəl 
ˈdä-
: loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect
also
: marked by triviality or inferiority
: doggerel verse
Examples of doggerel in a Sentence
Noun
a few lines of doggerel
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Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2023
Van de Venne made dozens of illustrations for Cats, who set them beside his doggerel poetry.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
His inventiveness suited the extraordinary reach of this devotee of both high diction and low doggerel.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
The story, written in a doggerel stuffed with show-biz references (Darryl F. Zanuck!
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 25 June 2019
Lee’s most memorable speech bubbles totter on the edge between speech, poetry, and outright doggerel.
—Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 13 Nov. 2018
This week in Washington, the ugly doggerel of the present was voiced in angry and tendentious tweets from the White House.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
So good they can be called a sacred blessing
(With celery, of course, and blue cheese dressing)
This augural doggerel — called On Buffalo’s Losing the Super Bowl — ran in The Nation after the Bills lost that fourth one following the 1993 season.
—Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
Eacker’s poetry explores not only relatable subjects such as gardening, nature, sports, love, aging and life, but also the process of writing doggerel (bad verse).
—idahostatesman, 28 July 2017
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Top Stories Joel Edgerton plays Narvel Roth, the film’s narrator, an autodidact who writes doggerel in his private journal, while Schrader shows scenes of him posing as head groundskeeper of Gatewood Gardens.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2023
Van de Venne made dozens of illustrations for Cats, who set them beside his doggerel poetry.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
His inventiveness suited the extraordinary reach of this devotee of both high diction and low doggerel.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
The story, written in a doggerel stuffed with show-biz references (Darryl F. Zanuck!
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 25 June 2019
Lee’s most memorable speech bubbles totter on the edge between speech, poetry, and outright doggerel.
—Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 13 Nov. 2018
This week in Washington, the ugly doggerel of the present was voiced in angry and tendentious tweets from the White House.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
So good they can be called a sacred blessing
(With celery, of course, and blue cheese dressing)
This augural doggerel — called On Buffalo’s Losing the Super Bowl — ran in The Nation after the Bills lost that fourth one following the 1993 season.
—Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
Eacker’s poetry explores not only relatable subjects such as gardening, nature, sports, love, aging and life, but also the process of writing doggerel (bad verse).
—idahostatesman, 28 July 2017
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