dreckitude

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noun

The quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noundreckitude (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountableThe quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).

    Such is the depth of my confidence in the dreckitude of Jack Benny and SCTV.

    2005 August 5, Ulo Melton, “Social Security Age”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet)
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    The last thing you want is to show up with something shiny and new and have your boyfriend say, "No, we're not keeping that piece of dreckitude."

    2011, Tiffany Current, How to Move in With Your Boyfriend (And Not Break Up With Him), Alameda, CA.: Hunter House Publishers, →ISBN, page 81

    We don't want a president who promises an A team but surrounds himself with dreckitude, a president who vows to pass "the best" bills but then doesn't care whether he's selling steak, wine, condos or garbage policies on matters of life and death that he hasn't even bothered to read.

    2018 February 10, Maureen Dowd, “Trump Shows Us the Way”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022

    In his assessments of the girls, he didn't hold back from the occasional barbs that any good reality show character must drop—he regularly dubbed looks and photos as exuding "dreckitude," most memorably.

    2022 January 21, Allegra Frank, “André Leon Talley Made ’’America’s Next Top Model’’ the Show It Pretended to Be”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023

    Synonyms: dreckness, dreckiness

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).

Origin

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APA

dreckitude. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dreckitude

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“dreckitude.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dreckitude. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dreckitude,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dreckitude.

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