adjective
Etymology
Origin of rubbishy
Example Sentences
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The name’s not so bad, but everything else about Fritz Von Meyer is a mix of reprehensible and rubbishy.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2017
It's kinder to read Philippe Claudel's The Investigation speculatively, as an interesting and timely experiment, than as what it ultimately is, a banal and rubbishy novel.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2013
Which is to say he's still Ryan Reynolds, but he gets to wear a rubbishy green Spider-Man costume and the world's silliest mask.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2011
RUBBISH! countered the rubbishy News of the World.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little, rubbishy wavelet, full of candy wrappers and orange peel and seaweed, folded over my foot.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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