discard
verb (used with object)
to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of.
discardable
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a word derived from
discard.
Example Sentences
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The Chargers’ Austin Ekeler, whose nose for the end zone makes him a fantasy favorite, tweeted: “Everyone knows it’s tough to win without a top RB and yet they act like we are discardable widgets.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
The mountain ranges of garbage declare to the heavens our criminal obsession with the discardable.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2014
I wanted to tell her what he had said to me and how it made me feel like I was about to be discarded, how it made me feel discardable.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2014
We have emerged in numbers at last, and are no longer invisible, discardable or silent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2013
After I’d leafed through them I would throw them away, for they were infinitely discardable, and a day or two later I wouldn’t be able to remember w hat had been in them.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
