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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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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
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 George Saintsbury
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
They found a plentiful seam of drossy, yellowish coal behind the Methodist New Connection Chapel.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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 Christopher Marlowe
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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