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drossy

[ draw-see, dros-ee ]
/ ˈdrɔ si, ˈdrɒs i /
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adjective, dross·i·er, dross·i·est.
containing dross.
resembling dross; worthless.
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Origin of drossy

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at dross, -y1

OTHER WORDS FROM drossy

dross·i·ness, nounun·dross·y, adjective

Words nearby drossy

droshky, drosky, drosometer, drosophila, dross, drossy, Droste-Hülshoff, drought, droughty, drouk, droukit
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Words related to drossy

barren, base, empty, good-for-nothing, inferior, nothing, poor, trifling, waste, abandoned, abject, bogus, cheap, contemptible, counterproductive, despicable, futile, ignoble, inconsequential, ineffective

How to use drossy in a sentence

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

    The Cloister and the Hearth|Charles Reade

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

    Hero and Leander|Christopher Marlowe

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

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2|George Saintsbury
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