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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Sheeran’s infernal hit-making knack produces American Idol dreck indistinguishable from Adam Levine’s for The Voice. — Armond White, National Review, "Yesterday Is Cynical, Fake Nostalgia," 28 June 2019 So naturally when the geyser erupted in September, unleashing its usual blast of searing-hot water and air, a nasty wave of dreck followed. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "Heavily Littered Yellowstone Geyser Spews Tons of Trash Into Air During Eruption," 5 Oct. 2018 One of the newest weapons is the dreck left at the bottom of a wine press. — Jesse Newman, WSJ, "Six Technologies That Could Shake the Food World," 2 Oct. 2018 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 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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