The movie was pure dreck.
he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain
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Her potential to reimagine rap in her own image is too high to excuse these lapses into dreck.—Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026 Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck.—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026 And, man, there’s a lot of dreck.—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 As with any high-volume enterprise, there was lots of forgettable dreck, but the Stanford’s series is the cream of the crop — curated by British film critic and writer David Thomson, who now lives in the Bay Area.—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dreck
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Etymology
Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish