The movie was pure dreck.
he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain
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And, man, there’s a lot of dreck.—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 As with any high-volume enterprise, there was lots of forgettable dreck, but the Stanford’s series is the cream of the crop — curated by British film critic and writer David Thomson, who now lives in the Bay Area.—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025 Sense-annihilating dreck has become a generational identity that these kids can claim as their own.—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025 Told in flashback, the film traces the progress of producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) from B-movie dreck to A-list Oscar winners to box office flops.—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dreck
Word History
Etymology
Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish
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