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dreck

noun

variants: also drek

Synonyms and Antonyms of dreck

1 discarded or useless material

he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain

Synonyms of dreck

chaff, deadwood, debris, dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

Words Related to dreck

crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash

detritus, remains, rubble, ruins

dump, scrap heap

lumber, odds and ends, trumpery

flotsam, jetsam, wreckage

castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway

nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms of dreck

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable

booty, find, salvage

2 that which is of low quality or worth

can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck "art"?

Synonyms of dreck

cheese, crapola [slang], junk, muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe

Words Related to dreck

claptrap, humbug, nonsense

bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey

mess, muddle, shambles

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