How to Use dreck in a Sentence
dreck
noun- The movie was pure dreck.
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One of the newest weapons is the dreck left at the bottom of a wine press.
—Jesse Newman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
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And, sadly, most music writing is dreck — not here at SPIN!
—An Unnamed Spin Editor, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2023
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Give DiCaprio all the Oscars for making this dreck almost work.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
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The movie is twenty minutes too long, and most of those minutes are consumed, near the end, by pyrotechnic dreck.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
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This sub-Hallmark dreck made by a bunch of hacks that don’t deserve to be named is the first film out of Lohan’s Netflix deal and her first feature in three years.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
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But that’s only one of many reasons that this B-movie dreck should have stayed underwater.
—Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
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All the while, Gebert has remained active in hate groups, and his once part-time gig as a peddler of racist dreck has transformed itself into a full-time job.
—Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
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The locker room has had a lot of time to get to know Richardson, and after the pressure, disgust and dreck of the 2022 season, a fresh perspective is perfect for this Colts team.
—The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2023
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Ambitious actors usually do dreck like this in order to be able to afford to make a movie like Black Swan.
—Julie Miller, HWD, 10 Jan. 2017
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Liddell isn’t the first player to open his DMs on Twitter or Instagram and read the dreck which people can send behind the safety of a keyboard.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2021
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Some indisputably gifted actors just seem to turn on the voltage when they’re cast as villains in franchise dreck and figure that art is for the birds.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
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Even a 42-34 victory at SMU looks good on the resume compared to the non-conference dreck Michigan plays, for example.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
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Sure, there’s a lot of dreck out there, but there’s also some really great writing, insightful and entertaining stuff that is easy to lose in the shuffle.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
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And yet what CNN’s audience is treated to is propagandized dreck.
—Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Aug. 2017
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There were attacks on a good friend and Bengals fan in Los Angeles, @commissioneryas, about the usual dreck women hear – not being real fans, just trying to attract guys.
—The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
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This moody psychological horror film is more than just an apology for the dreck that was the second Exorcist movie.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
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Those pieces are irresistible because there is such affection for the dreck seen from the view of someone whose tastes have become more sophisticated.
—Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
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This greatly increases the odds of finding good bottles, because conscientious merchants have weeded out much of the dreck.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
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So naturally when the geyser erupted in September, unleashing its usual blast of searing-hot water and air, a nasty wave of dreck followed.
—Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2018
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Offensive dreck, meanwhile, gets and stays published for as long as its commercially viable.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
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Beaver fans remember all too often from previous days of defensive dreck.
—oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
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The reason is that what looks like dreck at the beginning (check your Yiddish translation guide) can in a few months with a trainer, and a caring investor, morph into the equivalent of Jessica Chastain.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2023
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Fielding a strong defense after five seasons of dreck on that side of the ball could not elevate the team after the departure of quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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Its allies fill the op-ed pages with similar dreck, catering to the audience for politically correct, left-wing clickbait.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 May 2021
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This behind-the-times approach to Hollywood’s latest dreck hoodwinks conservatives who haven’t kept up with the depravity.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
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In the case of Pence, Simon & Schuster has paid $4 million for two books that will likely be the usual dreck of presidential aspirants, while the author cravenly glosses over the fact that his former boss incited a riot that nearly killed him.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2021
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The fact that basically anyone could design and sell hastily coded Atari 2600 games with no interference from or cooperation with Atari led to a game market flooded with shovelware and to clearance bins filled with unsellable dreck.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
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Much of his work, then, centers on counterbalancing that deluge of dreck via boosterish content generation, whether blog posts on personal websites or sites like Medium.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 June 2022
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Ancient Apocalypse is positively quaint by comparison with the paranoid, slipshod dreck filling many cable channels.
—Jason Colavito, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
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