dreck

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of DRECK

discarded or useless material <he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain>

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

Near Antonyms catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable; booty, find, salvage

that which is of low quality or worth <can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck “art”?>

Synonyms cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe

Related Words camp, kitsch; claptrap, humbug, nonsense; bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey; mess, muddle, shambles

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