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

See Examples For:

drossy drossier

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

When the strike was over, two or three miners still remained working the soft, drossy coal, which they sold for eight-and-sixpence a ton—or sixpence a hundredweight.

From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

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

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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