drossy

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Less sins the poor rich man that starves himself In heaping up a mass of drossy pelf, Than such as you.

From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher

For most part, too, we must admit that the Learning, heterogeneous as it is, and tumbled-down quite pell-mell, is true concentrated and purified Learning, the drossy parts smelted out and thrown aside.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

Time will sift it of its drossy puffs and praises.

From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by Cherry, J. L.

Amongst the drossy twaddle which passed current as poetry at Eartham, a sonnet in Romney's honour by a true poet—William Cowper—may be counted as pure gold.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George