Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).
But what really stumps me is how this dreck ever saw the light of day in its current state of, well, dreckiness.
2003 June 20, Kimberley Jones, “Alex & Emma”, in The Austin Chronicle, Austin, T.X.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 20233 more 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?
1997, Joseph McBride, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 381To 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.
2012 May 1, Taylor Clark, “Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb. Can We Stop Apologizing for Them Now?”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023Since I am so familiar with the magazine, I know that dreckiness is not the usual standard by which its subjects are measured.
2015 January 20, Lynn Messina, “The New Yorker's Dreck Problem”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021Synonyms: dreckness, dreckitude
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).
Origin
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dreckiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dreckiness
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