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Definition of dreck in English: dreck(also drek) noun drɛkdrek mass nouninformal Rubbish; trash. 〈非正式〉垃圾，破烂货，废物 this so-called art is pure dreck 这种所谓的艺术是纯粹的垃圾。 Example sentencesExamples - Maybe you told your mother-in-law that you love her stuffed cabbage casserole and you're just dying to tell someone what kind of dreck it really was.
- At first I thought it was a lack of talent, but I remember thinking that this group of finalists were much better than last year's dreck.
- The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill.
- His conduct since then - culminating in this piece of drek - is an absolute disgrace.
- You certainly have to wade through some dreck to get to these gems, but the series' quality control bar is set high enough that none of it's particularly excruciating.
- The Washington Post should be ashamed of publishing such dreck.
- If she's given dreck to work with - which she often is - she falls hard.
- There was also plenty of dreck in the past, just as there is now.
- How this dreck even got nominated for Best Picture troubles me.
- The overrated artists and the troops of pack-mentality fans were knee-deep in garbage, dreck, debris, and junk.
- There is lots of drek out there from signed bands and this lot do quite a bit with what they have.
- Can we blame him for figuring out what sort of dreck causes people to fork over money by the handful?
- Of course producing and promoting dreck is nothing new.
- I will confine myself to saying that this highly praised movie is Marxist dreck.
- But on the other hand, there's also a lot more drek out there to sift through.
- Since my son was born, I too have gotten religion and realized that my time is too important to waste watching dreck.
- Comic book movies are pretty hit-and-miss affairs, so most of the time you go in with no idea at all of whether it will be terrific or pure dreck.
- The dreck, it appears, continues to spill over on this side of the Atlantic.
- Does he really think Americans are so stupid they will pay to watch this dreck?
- Another reader wrote: ‘I can't believe you forced me to listen to that dreck!’
Synonyms debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, rubbish, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage
Derivativesadjective informal Why are all the dreckish adaptations so easy to find and the quality ones so difficult? Example sentencesExamples - But, it's got a nice entertainment value, in a sick, dreckish, reality TV kind of way.
adjectiveˈdrɛkiˈdrɛki informal Of poor quality and little value. a dreadful, drecky rip-off of a sensational Japanese film Example sentencesExamples - I even change into extra drecky clothes when ever I go, so as to be totally unappealing.
- Well, at least the drecky first draft of the book was finished.
- She hasn't made anything terribly drecky yet, but she's young.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Yiddish drek 'filth, dregs', from a Germanic base shared by Old English threax; probably related to Greek skatos 'dung'. Rhymesbeck, bedeck, check, cheque, Chiang Kai-shek, crosscheck, Czech, deck, exec, fleck, heck, hitech, keck, lek, neck, peck, Québec, rec, reck, sec, sneck, spec, speck, spot-check, tec, tech, Toulouse-Lautrec, trek, wreck Definition of dreck in US English: dreck(also drek) noundrek informal Rubbish; trash. 〈非正式〉垃圾，破烂货，废物 this so-called art is pure dreck 这种所谓的艺术是纯粹的垃圾。 Example sentencesExamples - You certainly have to wade through some dreck to get to these gems, but the series' quality control bar is set high enough that none of it's particularly excruciating.
- Can we blame him for figuring out what sort of dreck causes people to fork over money by the handful?
- At first I thought it was a lack of talent, but I remember thinking that this group of finalists were much better than last year's dreck.
- Does he really think Americans are so stupid they will pay to watch this dreck?
- Maybe you told your mother-in-law that you love her stuffed cabbage casserole and you're just dying to tell someone what kind of dreck it really was.
- The overrated artists and the troops of pack-mentality fans were knee-deep in garbage, dreck, debris, and junk.
- How this dreck even got nominated for Best Picture troubles me.
- The Washington Post should be ashamed of publishing such dreck.
- Since my son was born, I too have gotten religion and realized that my time is too important to waste watching dreck.
- There is lots of drek out there from signed bands and this lot do quite a bit with what they have.
- There was also plenty of dreck in the past, just as there is now.
- But on the other hand, there's also a lot more drek out there to sift through.
- If she's given dreck to work with - which she often is - she falls hard.
- The dreck, it appears, continues to spill over on this side of the Atlantic.
- Comic book movies are pretty hit-and-miss affairs, so most of the time you go in with no idea at all of whether it will be terrific or pure dreck.
- His conduct since then - culminating in this piece of drek - is an absolute disgrace.
- Another reader wrote: ‘I can't believe you forced me to listen to that dreck!’
- The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill.
- I will confine myself to saying that this highly praised movie is Marxist dreck.
- Of course producing and promoting dreck is nothing new.
Synonyms debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, rubbish, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage
OriginEarly 20th century: from Yiddish drek ‘filth, dregs’, from a Germanic base shared by Old English threax; probably related to Greek skatos ‘dung’. |