drossy

[ draw-see, dros-ee ]
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adjective,dross·i·er, dross·i·est.
  1. containing dross.

  2. resembling dross; worthless.

Origin of drossy

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at dross, -y1

Other words from drossy

  • dross·i·ness, noun
  • un·dross·y, adjective

Words Nearby drossy

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How to use drossy in a sentence

  • One thing I go by is this; it makes other pictures I once admired seem drossy, earth-born things.

  • Less sins the poor rich man that starves himself In heaping up a mass of drossy pelf, Than such as you.

    Hero and Leander | Christopher Marlowe
  • He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.