rubbish
Pronunciation
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- (uncountable) Rubbish is unwanted things such as plastic bags, half-eaten food, and broken toys.
- Antonym: treasure
- She's always throwing her left-over food on the ground, and not in the rubbish bin.
- People drive by and dump all manner of rubbish.
- (uncountable) (slang) Rubbish is a stupid or wrong idea.
- You're going to sing? Rubbish! Total rubbish! You can't sing.
- Oh, I don't watch TV. It's a load of rubbish.
- He was tired and angry and didn't want to listen to his friend talking rubbish.
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- (transitive) If you rubbish something, you say it's bad or stupid.
- It's not very good, but I didn't want to completely rubbish it.