(a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
(n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(2) Illustrations of attunements in analysis are attempted by means of doggerel verses about some patients.
(3) Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
(4) (Parody and doggerel and facetiousness are big features of Burns suppers.
(5) I'll have the real pleasure of performing the first poem I learned by heart when I was about 10 – Burns's To a Mouse , On Turning Her up in Her Nest With the Plough, November 1785, a poem which, like any great poem, continues to both further delight and to mean different, deeper things to me as I grow older – and then my actor friend Frances will chip in with a daft doggerel response of mine, From a Mouse .
(6) It is written in excruciating doggerel verse, with appallingly irritating rhymes and shapeless rhythms.
(7) The same principles of criticism apply to buildings as to literature: who wants pastiche and doggerel?
(8) And he recited for my benefit the doggerel that was very popular in this lovely part of the Erin Isle: "Ireland will be Ireland, When England was a Pup.
Humorous
Definition:
(a.) Moist; humid; watery.
(a.) Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
(a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Work on humoral responses has focused on lysozyme, the hemagglutinins (especially in the oyster), and the clearance of certain antigens.
(2) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(3) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(4) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(5) These findings show that humoral factors that can inhibit natural killer cell activity in vitro are present in the peripheral blood of patients who have endometriosis; moreover, they suggest that the suppressed natural killer cell activity may allow the development of endometrial cells at ectopic sites.
(6) CGRP at a dose of 3 micrograms caused a small rise in aqueous humor protein concentration.
(7) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(8) The changes in the bone and in calcium metabolism during cisplatin or bisphosphonate administration is reported in a 50-year-old patient with esophageal carcinoma who had humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM).
(9) In this respect, its effects are very similar to those of pooled rhesus monkey aqueous humor during perfusion of rhesus monkey eyes.
(10) Patients with primary hypogammaglobulinaemia have previously been thought not to be more susceptible to Salmonella infection but a combination of low gastric acidity and impaired humoral immunity may predispose them to such infection.
(11) The appearance in aqueous humor of selected metabolites of arachidonic acid metabolism at various times was correlated with the influx of protein and myeloperoxidase activity in the iris-ciliary body.
(12) The development of this arthritis was accompanied by the expression of cell-mediated and humoral immunity to the immunizing antigen.
(13) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
(14) (4) The data support other evidence for declining cellular and humoral immunity in aging man.
(15) The pharmacokinetic parameters, apparent absorption, and elimination rate constants, of phenylephrine and the prodrug were determined from aqueous humor concentration-time and mydriasis-time profiles.
(16) Much has been learned about the complexity of the local, humoral and nervous factors regulating the normal behavior of the skin blood vessels, and many studies have addressed how this knowledge might relate to the causation of primary Raynaud's disease.
(17) Modern analytical techniques allow their detailed analysis in terms of the humoral antibody responses and afford the possibility of the future development of control and disease management procedures tailored to each individual host-parasite system.
(18) Intensive humoral immunity was observed to develop in 86% of vaccines, this genic.
(19) Chemotactic activity in the aqueous humor is found in both CVF-treated and control rabbits 20 hours after intravitreous LPS.
(20) If beta-blockage does not cause lowering of aqueous humor secretion, in itself responsible for the maintenance of intraocular pressure, what is the mechanism of action?