Definition of dross
2
: waste or foreign matter : impurity
3
: something that is base (see base entry 3 sense 1), trivial, or inferior
There is quite a lot of dross on TV these days. a talent for turning literary dross into gold
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The first known use of dross was before the 12th century
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