castoff
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adjective
1.
thrown away; rejected; discarded: castoff clothing.
Origin:
1735–45; adj., noun use of verb phrase cast off
1735–45; adj., noun use of verb phrase cast off
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The top of the duff is where needles, leaves, fruits and other castoff vegetative material have noticeably begun to decompose.
The crowd cheers as the flames quickly consume him, along with all of their castoff gloom from the past year.
If only a few castoff computers or gadgets had to be disposed of, it wouldn't be much of a problem.
She could convince herself that she was not really eating if she allowed herself to consume such a lowly castoff.
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