dreck
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Synonyms
chaff, deadwood, debris, dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste
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But that’s only one of many reasons that this B-movie dreck should have stayed underwater. — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, "Jean-Claude Van Damme/Dolph Lundgren action-thriller 'Black Water' stuck in retrograde," 28 June 2018 This greatly increases the odds of finding good bottles, because conscientious merchants have weeded out much of the dreck. — Eric Asimov, New York Times, "Everyday Wines: The Most Important Bottles You Will Drink," 22 Mar. 2018 And yet what CNN’s audience is treated to is propagandized dreck. — Sarah Jones, New Republic, "How Trump Is Creating a Propaganda State," 30 Aug. 2017 Ambitious actors usually do dreck like this in order to be able to afford to make a movie like Black Swan. — Julie Miller, HWD, "Natalie Portman Reveals Which Male Co-Star Was Paid Three Times More than Her," 10 Jan. 2017 The movie is twenty minutes too long, and most of those minutes are consumed, near the end, by pyrotechnic dreck. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, "Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman," 5 June 2017 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. — Bo Moore, WIRED, "Energy Hook Delivers Web-Swinging Thrills, Sans Spidey," 27 June 2013 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. — Scott Meslow, GQ, "Are Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Movies Finally About to Become a Thing?," 21 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dreck.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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dreck
noun
English Language Learners Definition of dreck
: something that is of very bad quality : trash or rubbish
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