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dross
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synonyms: draff ???
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Definition:rubbish; dregs
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The writer who immersed himself deeply in the dross of life, and then described it as accurately as any other writer, Russian or otherwise, also had an unflinching faith in human possibility.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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so much better as pure ore is than foul dross.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"Nothing could ever come between us."
"What's money?"
"Exactly."
"Dross, wouldn't you call it?"
"Just the word."
"Who wants money if they've got [...]"
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.180 (1971)
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