dreck

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It's the same with carbon footprints - if the product is dreck, the carbon footprint doesn't matter.

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  • But no matter how much this year needs autumn to redeem it, it's worth examining the previous nine months, and shedding light on the hidden gems, dreck, and mundanity found within. —  GreenCine Daily
  • I don't differentiate between these, as some of my very twee colleagues do, pronouncing anything on the bestseller list, dreck, … and anything that has a readership of ten readers only, brilliant. —  The Moderate Voice
  • And if the major league staff sucks this bad what kind of dreck is teaching the kids on the farm??
  • Postscript reads, "btw Mom, that FDL writer you think does such a good job has a post up about McSame's dreck-filled speech." —  Firedoglake
  • I can't believe Microsoft paid him $10M to star in this dreck. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
 

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  1. German, dirt, trash and Yiddish drek, excrement, both from Middle High German drec, from Old High German; see sker-3 in Indo-European roots.
 

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