dreckiness

English

Etymology

From drecky +‎ -ness.

Noun

dreckiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being dreck (junk, garbage).

   Synonyms: dreckness, dreckitude

   • 1997, Joseph McBride, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 381:

     Or, as Kael wrote of George Lucas when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark, is Spielberg still so "hooked on the crap of his childhood" that he feels a compulsion to keep replicating it on the big screen, in all its unalloyed dreckiness?

   • 2003 June 20, Kimberley Jones, “Alex & Emma”, in The Austin Chronicle‎^[1], Austin, T.X.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:

     But what really stumps me is how this dreck ever saw the light of day in its current state of, well, dreckiness.

   • 2012 May 1, Taylor Clark, “Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb. Can We Stop Apologizing for Them Now?”, in Kotaku‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-08-01:

     To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck's obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow the form to languish forever.

   • 2015 January 20, Lynn Messina, “The New Yorker's Dreck Problem”, in HuffPost‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-04-22:

     Since I am so familiar with the magazine, I know that dreckiness is not the usual standard by which its subjects are measured.