wastepaper
[weyst-pey-per]
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noun
paper thrown away as useless.
Origin of wastepaper
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Contemporary Examples of wastepaper
Maybe you turn in the tissue you found in the wastepaper basket and some water out of the toilet.
Patricia Cornwell Talks New Book, 'Red Mist,' Forensics, and Angelina JolieJanice Kaplan
December 13, 2011
Historical Examples of wastepaper
He wrote pages and pages, and in the evening threw them into the wastepaper basket.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
I was looking respectfully at that tomb of fame, his wastepaper basket.
The Champagne StandardMrs. John Lane
He searched the wastepaper basket, and, picking an envelope therefrom, said “Ha!”
If I MayA. A. Milne
"Yeah," agreed the other, picking it up and throwing it into a wastepaper basket.
All In The MindGene L. Henderson
Peggy, armed with the wastepaper basket and the skin, followed open-mouthed.
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wastepaper
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