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Examples of dreck in a Sentence
The movie was pure dreck.
he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain
Recent Examples of dreck from the Web
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And yet what CNN’s audience is treated to is propagandized dreck.
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A decade later, this oddball video game subgenre finally arrived for home consoles in the form of dreck like the Sega CD’s Night Trap.
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The movie is twenty minutes too long, and most of those minutes are consumed, near the end, by pyrotechnic dreck.
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Ambitious actors usually do dreck like this in order to be able to afford to make a movie like Black Swan.
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But among all the dreck over the years, one movie-game has stood out as an unlikely example of quality: Spider-Man 2, released by Activision in 2004.
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Origin and Etymology of dreck
Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish
dreck Synonyms
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chaff, deadwood, debris, garbage (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, wasteRelated Words
crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash; detritus, remains, rubble, ruins; dump, scrap heap; lumber, odds and ends, trumpery; flotsam, jetsam, wreckage; castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway; nothing, straw, two bitsNear Antonyms
catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable; booty, find, salvageDRECK Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of dreck for English Language Learners
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: something that is of very bad quality : trash or rubbish
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