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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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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 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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 Bunyan, John
Amongst the drossy twaddle which passed current as poetry at Eartham, a sonnet in Romney's honour by a true poet—William Cowper—may be counted as pure gold.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton
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 Bangs, John Kendrick
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
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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