1
: useless waste or rejected matter : trash
2
: something that is worthless or nonsensical
few real masterpieces are forgotten and not much rubbish survives—
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Examples of rubbish in a Sentence
Please, pick the rubbish up off the ground.
I think what he says is absolute rubbish!
“I'm sorry, but I had to do it.” “Rubbish!”
The food at that restaurant is complete rubbish.
Recent Examples on the Web
They can be seen approaching a dumpster, piled high with trash, and then pulling a newborn out of the rubbish.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
But on Wednesday, the rhetorical rubbish landed on the presidential compound in Seoul, delivering what was perhaps the most humiliating of the unwanted loads from the North so far and raising security concerns and questions about whether the situation would devolve.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
Taiwo remembers everyone fawning over the food, including some policemen on set who were floored to find that Africans don’t eat rubbish.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2024
Fifty years later, that swampy area — once a fishing village and rubbish dump — is now Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and a bustling hub of industry in India’s financial capital.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 June 2024
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
But on Wednesday, the rhetorical rubbish landed on the presidential compound in Seoul, delivering what was perhaps the most humiliating of the unwanted loads from the North so far and raising security concerns and questions about whether the situation would devolve.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
Taiwo remembers everyone fawning over the food, including some policemen on set who were floored to find that Africans don’t eat rubbish.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2024
Fifty years later, that swampy area — once a fishing village and rubbish dump — is now Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and a bustling hub of industry in India’s financial capital.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 June 2024
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“Rubbish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubbish. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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