drossy

[ draw-see, dros-ee ]

adjective

, dross·i·er, dross·i·est.

1. containing dross.
2. resembling dross; worthless.

Other Words From

• drossi·ness noun
• un·drossy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of drossy¹

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

Example Sentences

One thing I go by is this; it makes other pictures I once admired seem drossy, earth-born things.

From Project Gutenberg

Less sins the poor rich man that starves himself In heaping up a mass of drossy pelf, Than such as you.

From Project Gutenberg

He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.

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