drossy

American  

[draw-see, dros-ee] / ˈdrɔ si, ˈdrɒs i /

adjective

drossier, drossiest

1. containing dross.

2. resembling dross; worthless.

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Other Word Forms

• drossiness
  noun
• undrossy
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of drossy

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at dross, -y ¹

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Example Sentences

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drossy drossier

Astral money, it may be, Circulates in theory; But ’tis best to give us cold, Bilious, drossy, filthy gold.

From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by John Kendrick Bangs

Earth is a drossy thing in this man's account; earthly greatness and splendors are but like vanishing bubbles in this man's esteem.

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan

The Apostle therefore sets himself to the study of mortification, lest, saith he, when I have been refining and purifying others, I myself be found to be drossy silver.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

For most part, too, we must admit that the Learning, heterogeneous as it is, and tumbled-down quite pell-mell, is true concentrated and purified Learning, the drossy parts smelted out and thrown aside.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne Base thing, and thinke how she to heaven may clime; Treading downe earth as lothsome and forlorne, That hinders heavenly thoughts with drossy slime.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

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 Harold Whitmore Jones

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