Word Finder - rubbish

definition

Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

example

The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.

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(by extension) An item, or items, of low quality.

example

Much of what they sell is rubbish.

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(by extension) Nonsense.

example

Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?

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Debris or ruins of buildings.

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To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.

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Exceedingly bad; awful.

example

This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

synonyms

• abysmal
• crappy
• horrendous
• shitty
• terrible

definition

Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

example

The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson. Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.

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Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

example

Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

synonyms

• bollocks
• bullshit

We breathe the fumes, pick up the rubbish.

Rubbish in your green bin should be bagged up.

The unhealthiness of the city is chiefly due to want of proper drainage, impure drinkingwater, miasma from the disturbed rubbish heaps, and contaminated dust from the uncleansed roads and streets.

This cavity was filled with rubbish, sherds, &c., the latest of which was found to date as far back as the beginning of the Middle Minoan age, and the later work of 1908 only proved (by means of a small shaft sunk through the debris) that the rock floor was 52 ft.

Rubbish they can always find in a used dustbin.

Buy a rubbish compactor and only use it once a week.

Their company has received a multitude of unwanted post, including fire extinguishers and rubbish skips.

You can safely dispose of the toner cassette by putting it in the rubbish bin.

Only crude brick ruins and rubbish heaps remain on the site, but a few relics conveyed to Alexandria and Europe in the Roman age have come down to our day, notably the inscribed statue of a priest of Neith who was high in favour with Psammetichus III., Cambyses and Darius.

In 689 B.C. its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground and the rubbish thrown into the Arakhtu, the canal which bordered the earlier Babylon on the south.

She then bleated about " you have to give 2 weeks notice before you run a tram " - Rubbish!

They cited graffiti, litter, rubbish and traffic as being their main bugbears.

This was rubbish, but the last thing the bureaucrats wanted was revolution or upheaval in another country upsetting their relations with foreign capitalists.

My eyes avoid the carnage in the sink, the corner where the rubbish bags overflow, the empty fridge.

There are of course good and bad politicians, but the idea that they are all without exception useless layabouts is complete rubbish.

Rubbish dumps create a strong chemical cocktail called leachate.

Stolze has shown that in some cases even the mason's rubbish has not been removed.'

More mobile and more searching than ice or rock rubbish, the trickling drops are guided by the deepest lines of the hillside in their incipient flow, and as these lines converge, the stream, gaining strength, proceeds in River its torrential course to carve its channel deeper and en- t trench itself in permanent occupation.

Nearly in the centre of the town is the Ptolemaic and Roman temple of the ram-headed Khnum, almost buried in rubbish and houses.

Open spaces of great extent are numerous within the walls, but for the most part they are defaced by mounds of rubbish and putrid refuse.

Its stones were carted away, and the churchyard, overgrown with weeds, became the dumpingground for rubbish.

The ancient walls are now covered up beneath green mounds of rubbish.

The composition introduced Carlyle to the " Dryasdust " rubbish heaps of which he here and ever afterwards bitterly complained.

The wall by which Sidon is at present surrounded is pierced by two gates; at the southern angle, upon a heap of rubbish, stand the remains of the citadel.

If they do not undertake these duties, they may make by-laws imposing on the occupiers of premises the duty of cleansing footways and pavements, the removal of house refuse, and the cleansing of earth-closets, privies, ashpits and cesspools; and an urban council may also make by-laws for the prevention of nuisances arising from snow, filth, dust, ashes and rubbish, and for the prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises so as to be injurious to health.

Both these and the court of the great mosque lie beneath the general level of the city, the site having been gradually raised by accumulated rubbish.

In Nial's, Gisli's and Droplaug's Sons' Sagas there is good verse of a later poet, and in many sagas worthless rubbish foisted in as ornamental.

There is no point stating rubbish like this if you can't provide decent evidence to back up your rash and completely baseless statements.

No one wants to recycle or can't throw their rubbish down the rubbish chutes provided.

Irish Independent Volunteers wanted for beach cleanup Pick up a rubbish bag - your beach needs you.

For me was reserved the high honor of discovering among the rubbish of the ruined Coliseum the only playbill of that establishment now extant.

The council has announced a crackdown on anyone found to be dumping rubbish illegally â a crime carrying a maximum fine of £ 50,000.

Piles of rubbish and general detritus is still to be seen on the council unit in the market.

Smell was no worse in the summer than what we used to get with ordinary rubbish disposal.

A Lower Largo resident says a local beauty spot has become more like a rubbish dump than a nature reserve.

Imagine trying to find a lost Radium needle on a rubbish dump with a gold leaf electroscope!

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To we women the tradesman's entrance is something through which you put out the rubbish.

It is no longer considered right, proper, or even ethical to say, " This is rubbish.

Halon fire extinguishers must not be disposed of in domestic rubbish.

That was total rubbish, it was made up from start to finish, totally fabricated.

What he can plant the fir for, God only knows, seeing that the country is already over-stocked with that rubbish.

It, too, has had its share of rubbish pedaled by insincere opportunists and deluded fools.

But it's like building your house with shallow foundations on an old rubbish tip full of rotting garbage.

Some of these are rubbish but there are also some undiscovered gems among them.

Collect and dispose of all rubbish including disposable glassware, crockery and cutlery in a safe and hygienic manner.

Two accidents involved transport; a tractor overturn on a rubbish tip and a pierced groin from the forks of a loader.

Hendon evidence suggests the possibility of settlement near Church End and Hendon Grove, and rubbish pits at Burnt Oak indicate possible habitation there.

The word started life meaning dung heap, then later refuse or rubbish heap.

Should Leeds build an incinerator to burn its rubbish?