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Origin of drossy
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at dross, -y 1
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Less sins the poor rich man that starves himself In heaping up a mass of drossy pelf, Than such as you.
From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher
They found a plentiful seam of drossy, yellowish coal behind the Methodist New Connection Chapel.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
When the strike was over, two or three miners still remained working the soft, drossy coal, which they sold for eight-and-sixpence a ton—or sixpence a hundredweight.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Time will sift it of its drossy puffs and praises.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by Cherry, J. L.
But spoyl’d, and rob’d, his drossier Glories gone, His Virtue and his Truth are still his own.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore
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