drecky

D2R1E1C3K5Y4
UK/ˈdɹɛki/

adjective

trashy, worthless

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivedrecky (comparative dreckier, superlative dreckiest)

comparative dreckier · superlative dreckiest

  1. trashy, worthless

    And lenders still would suffer negative consequences for selling a bad product, even if they could get away with it for a while, such as loss of reputation due to inferior deal performance, losses on retained interests, and poor pricing for the drecky mortgages.

    2011, Thomas Adams, Yves Smith, FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?
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    She hated to think of her father kneeling beneath his workbench and locating that penciled heart, hated the idea of Don Armour’s drecky insinuations entering her father’s prudish ears, hated to imagine how keenly it offended a man of such discipline and privacy to learn that Don Armour had been roaming and poking through his house at will.

    2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

    Synonyms: cruddy, trashy, dreckish, valueless, ass, bad, base, below par

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

From dreck + -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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