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dreggy

[dreg-ee] / ˈdrɛg i /




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Sandy had no job and lived in a downscale apartment in a dreggy section of town.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2014

It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism."

From Time Magazine Archive

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

He sipped the dreggy coffee as if it were the mulled wine of a New Year's night.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read




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