as in poet
a person who writes poetry
she's a poetaster whose verse never rises above what is found on greeting cards
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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.
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New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
—Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
—Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
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“Poetaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetaster. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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