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dreckiness

dreckiness noun: the quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).

Noun

dreckiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).
    • Or, as Kael wrote of George Lucas when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark, is Spielberg still so "hooked on the crap of his childhood" that he feels a compulsion to keep replicating it on the big screen, in all its unalloyed dreckiness?1997, Joseph McBride, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 381
    • But what really stumps me is how this dreck ever saw the light of day in its current state of, well, dreckiness.2003 June 20, Kimberley Jones, “Alex & Emma”, in The Austin Chronicle, Austin, T.X.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023

Examples of dreckiness in a sentence

  • To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck's obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow the form to languish forever.2012 May 1, Taylor Clark, “Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb. Can We Stop Apologizing for Them Now?”, in Kotaku, archived from the original...
  • Since I am so familiar with the magazine, I know that dreckiness is not the usual standard by which its subjects are measured.2015 January 20, Lynn Messina, “The New Yorker's Dreck Problem”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021:

Synonyms of dreckiness

Origin of dreckiness

From drecky + -ness.

Questions about dreckiness

What does dreckiness mean?
Dreckiness means the quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).
How do you use dreckiness in a sentence?
To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck's obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow the form to languish forever.
What part of speech is dreckiness?
Dreckiness is a noun.

Words near dreckiness in the dictionary

  1. Drechslers
  2. Drechterland
  3. dreck
  4. dreckier
  5. dreckiest
  6. dreckiness
  7. dreckish
  8. dreckitude
  9. dreckley
  10. dreckly
  11. dreckness

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