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wastebasket

noun as in circular file

Weak match

noun as in receptacle

noun as in wastepaper basket

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Example Sentences

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Crawl up the wastebasket—oooh, I didn’t know it would sway like that!

This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.

Last month, in an act of showmanship during a Facebook Live event, Fain condemned a contract proposal from Stellantis as “trash” — and tossed a copy of it into a wastebasket, “where it belongs,” he said.

She said, “Suds, will you excuse yourself from Joey long enough to empty your wastebasket, please.”

There is an empty, deflated bag of microwave popcorn crumpled in the wastebasket.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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