Word: doggereleer
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...compliment. In one of these are they notably successful, though they do try hard. Their humor for the most part does not evoke a spontaneous "heh-heh" or even a "haw-haw-haw"; it is of the "well, when you come to think of it this is pretty smooth doggerel" variety...
...rhapsodized a Kansas City Star reader about the most popular feature the Star has ever run: Elmer Wheeler's "Fat Boy's" diet series. The doggerel pinned down a fact that was astounding editors across the U.S. last week. Reducing diets for men have become so popular that they are displacing Page One news stories...
...tree moved one alumnus to send a bit of protesting doggerel to the Harvard Crimson...
Ogden Nash, whose books have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, is probably the only writer of doggerel who has made a good thing, as well as a career, of giving calculated affront to poetry. The difference between Nash and his imitators is that somewhere in the cunningly dislocated gears of his lines he imprisons a patented point of view. It was observable in one of his earliest verses (sold to The New Yorker, in 1930), which began...
...Listened resignedly in the House to Pennsylvania's cantankerous Lame Duck Robert F. ("Where's the money coming from?") Rich, who read a piece of doggerel, partly of his own composing...