drossy

Adjective

drossy (comparative drossier or more drossy, superlative drossiest or most drossy)

1. worthless
   • Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
     know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
     time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
     yeasty collection, which carries them through and
     through the most profane and winnowed opinionsc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
   • They found the Mass, ’tis true, but in their Mould
     They purg’d the drossy Oar to current Gold:
     Mending their patttern, they escap’d the Curse,
     Yet had they not writ better, they’d writ worse.1685, Matthew Prior, “A Satyr on the modern Translators”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press...