Meanings
comparative dreckier · superlative dreckiest
- 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?1 more example
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 CorrectionsSynonyms: cruddy, trashy, dreckish, valueless, ass, bad, base, below par
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivetrashy, worthless
Origin
From dreck + -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).
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drecky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drecky
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