rubbish
IPA: rˈʌbɪʃ
noun
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
- (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) An item, or items, of low quality.
- (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) Nonsense.
- (archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.
verb
- (transitive, chiefly Australia, Britain, Ireland, India, South Africa, New Zealand, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
- (Australia, Hong Kong) To litter.
adjective
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.
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Examples of "rubbish" in Sentences
- It is a load of sycophantic rubbish
- Most of the time the content is rubbish.
- He humbugged a person into buying rubbish.
- Even the derivation of the word is rubbish.
- The second half of the sentence is rubbish.
- All of the stuff in that section is rubbish.
- The logic used to keep the sentence in is rubbish.
- But the reason given in the current article is rubbish.
- The food and the internet are currently rubbish at the moment.
- Most of the discussion was the usual rubbish, but that's not the point.