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dreckiness

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).

uncountable

Examples

“Or, as Kael wrote of George Lucas when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark, is Spielberg still so "hooked on the crap of his childhood" that he feels a compulsion to keep⟳ replicating it on the big screen, in all its unalloyed dreckiness?”
“But what really stumps me is how this dreck ever saw⟳ the light⟳ of day in its current state of, well, dreckiness.”
“To accept⟳ childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend⟳ the dreck's obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow⟳ the form⟳ to languish forever.”
“Since I am so familiar with the magazine, I know⟳ that dreckiness is not the usual standard by which its subjects are measured.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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