rubbish

Publishers print stacks of rubbish – “Beach Reading” – for your sake.
Our Doomed Love Affair with Summer|P. J. O’Rourke|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The actor has since denied involvement in the projects, calling rumors to the contrary “rubbish.”
The Cult of Boba Fett: The ‘Star Wars’ Bounty Hunter’s Spin-Off|Rich Goldstein|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As he advanced his, eyebrows contracted, and his lips seemed to form the word “rubbish.”
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
People ought to know that if they stuff themselves silly with high-calorie, rubbish foods they will get fat.
Britain’s Weighty Issue|Emma Woolf|January 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

There was rubble, half-collapsed houses, and mountains of rubbish everywhere.
My Harrowing Kidnapping Ordeal in Syria|Balint Szlanko|January 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Both yards were forlorn, uneven, and malodorous, from the heaps of offal and rubbish lying under the hot sun.
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2)|Isabella L. Bird
I lay still, and seemed to be well covered with rubbish and to be unnoticed.
The Escaping Club|A. J. Evans
The sparrows industriously collected all manner of rubbish, and stowed it away under the tiles of the Navigation School.
The Red Room|August Strindberg
Suddenly a door opened, and a great quantity of rubbish was swept briskly into the street.
The So-called Human Race|Bert Leston Taylor
The whole is surrounded by a deep wide ditch, which could be filled with water; it is now much filled up with rubbish.
Letters from Palestine|J. D. Paxton

British Dictionary definitions for rubbish

rubbish

/ (ˈrʌbɪʃ) /

noun

worthless, useless, or unwanted matter

discarded or waste matter; refuse

foolish words or speech; nonsense

verb

(tr) informal to criticize; attack verbally

Word Origin for rubbish

C14 robys, of uncertain origin

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Idioms and Phrases with rubbish

rubbish

see good riddance (to bad rubbish).