Did you by any chance mean detritus?
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“My suspicion is that the java fern, which has nearly taken over the entire tank, may have been hiding bits of detrius -- food, waste, rotten eggs (from the multiple spawnings of the minnows), and any number of other ugliness.”
“But at least we both remember that the love is there, even if it's often buried underneath the detrius of daily living.”
“Thanks CU ... almost there actually ... god I love dumping the detrius have accumulated in absent minded moments”
“Apologies to all who care-- we are still struggling through the detrius of 2006 and preparing for what promises to be a serious Animal Rights battle in New Mexico.”
“Please also note that costs associated with clean up, removal, transport, and/or burial of such detrius shall specifically be deducted from future invoices and payments for subject contract, and that any work required to be done as a result of inoperability of sections overloaded with such detrius are also to be deducted from payments rendered on said project.”
“I had the pleasure of spending a day or two around Bastonge in the spring of 1976 -- there was still a lot of wartime detrius scattered about the woods, a prominent monument with a tank on the top, and a plaque underneath that just said "NUTS.”
“Knowing that I myself may, on exceeding rare occasion, let my arguments extend beyond the range of my information, I must say that simply being wrong doesn't reduce all of one's efforts to "a stinking pile of detrius.”
“Our pal Amy writes ... after straggling in the door, I checked my email and found in my inbox a charming little missive from a reader who thought to take the time to tell me that he/she thinks my writing is "a stinking pile of detrius.”
“Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forrest has a new blog dedicated to coffee and the way it and the detrius we have built around it affect our lives.”
“Then there's the detrius of countless trips to Hay on Wye, or misguided purchases on con tables when that magic "5 books for £10" sign appears on the last day that I can never realy summon the enthusiasim to read.”
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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list of errata
self-explanatory
penchant, obligatory, avant garde, decadent, luxe, uninhibited, burnish, analog, dexterity, sensual, proliferate, murmur and 80 more...
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The Lexicon
nimble, agile, pussyfooting, amalgamation, bugaboo, doodad, Charles Barkleyed, parallax, posthaste, detrius, kerfluffle, expeditiously
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georgegerharz the scattered dirty remnants Jun 5, 2009