rubbish
noun
, dialectal -bij\
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chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste
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Last week, for instance, a whale died in southern Thailand after eating plastic rubbish and vomiting out several plastic bags. — Rick Noack, Washington Post, "Sharks, cold water and ‘plastic smog’: Swimmer crosses Pacific to fight pollution," 5 June 2018 Erick Uriel Sandoval is accused of helping burn the students’ bodies at a rubbish dump. — The Economist, "Politics this week," 15 Mar. 2018 Then, everyone except those in power was aware of the national crisis: strikes, rubbish in the streets, general malaise. — Benedict Kiely, National Review, "Pope Francis Gets His ‘Mess’," 9 Feb. 2018 Suction cups or oversized tongs attached to the arms snag cans, glass, plastic containers, and other recyclable items out of the rubbish and flick them into nearby bins. — Bryn Nelson /, NBC News, "How robots are reshaping one of the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs," 17 Apr. 2018 As a specialist in Maya civilization, Rathje was well practiced in the study of middens, heaps of ancient rubbish that had provided his field with most of its knowledge about Mesoamerican culture. — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, "The Vanishing City," 13 Aug. 2018 Two wine barrels filled with human excrement, sand and gravel fragments, animal bones and an array of Renaissance-era rubbish have enabled Danish archaeologists to map the dietary and hygienic habits of a 17th-century Copenhagen neighborhood. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "Archaeologists Unseal 17th-Century Danish Latrines to Discover Copenhageners’ Dietary Habits," 9 July 2018 But the season’s repertory (scheduled months ago by Mr. Martins) also contained 21st-century rubbish. — Alastair Macaulay, New York Times, "Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins," 23 Feb. 2018 But dictatorships are rubbish at football, which requires more creativity and flair. — The Economist, "For all its faults, the World Cup in Russia is worth celebrating," 9 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rubbish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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