dreckitude

English

Etymology

From dreck +‎ -itude.

Noun

dreckitude (uncountable)

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

   Synonyms: dreckness, dreckiness

   • 2005 August 5, Ulo Melton, “Social Security Age”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Such is the depth of my confidence in the dreckitude of Jack Benny and SCTV.

   • 2011, Tiffany Current, How to Move in With Your Boyfriend (And Not Break Up With Him), Alameda, C.A.: Hunter House Inc., →ISBN, page 81:

     The last thing you want is to show up with something shiny and new and have your boyfriend say, "No, we're not keeping that piece of dreckitude."

   • 2018 February 10, Maureen Dowd, “Trump Shows Us the Way”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-05:

     We don't want a president who promises an A team but surrounds himself with dreckitude, a president who vows to pass "the best" bills but then doesn't care whether he's selling steak, wine, condos or garbage policies on matters of life and death that he hasn't even bothered to read.

   • 2022 January 21, Allegra Frank, “André Leon Talley Made ’’America’s Next Top Model’’ the Show It Pretended to Be”, in Slate‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:

     In his assessments of the girls, he didn't hold back from the occasional barbs that any good reality show character must drop—he regularly dubbed looks and photos as exuding "dreckitude," most memorably.