rubbish

Plural: rubbishes

Noun

• Worthless, unwanted matter; refuse or garbage.
• worthless material that is to be disposed of
• nonsensical talk or writing
• Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
• An item, or items, of low quality.
• Nonsense.
• Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

Verb

• attack strongly
• To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
• To litter.

Adj

• Exceedingly bad; awful.

Intj

• Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.
• Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

Examples

• - The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson. - Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.
• Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?
• He challenged his opponent’s play, declaring it sheer rubbish.
• Much of what they sell is rubbish.
• Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!
• The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
• This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

Synonyms

applesauce, codswallop, folderol, scrap, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, abysmal, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, ass, awful, bad, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, base, batcrap, batshit, below par, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, broken, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bum, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, cheap, chintzy, chronic, clamjamfrey, claptrap, coarse, cobblers, crap, crapperific, crappo, crappy, craptabulous, craptacular, craptastic, crock, crock of shit, crummy, cultch, debris, dire, disagreeable, dismal, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dreadful, dreck, drek, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flimsy, flizz, flummery, foolishness, footle, foul, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hideous, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inferior, intolerable, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, litter, loathsome, lousy, low, low-grade, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, miserable, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, naff, negative, nertz, nonsense, odious, pathetic, peak, pelf, pie in the sky, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, piffle, pigswill, pile of crap, pile of shit, pitiful, poor, poppycock, prattle, put-on, refuse, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rinky-dink, rot, rotten, roughage, rubbish, ruse, sad, santorum, schlocky, service item, shit, shitawful, shite, shitty, shoddy, skimble-skamble, slight, slim, sloppy, sorry, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, subpar, substandard, terrible, tin-pot, tommy-rot, tosh, tush, twaddle, unacceptable, unfavorable, unfit, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsuitable, wass, waste, whiff-whaff, woeful, word salad, wretched

Related Words

rubble, RUBBISHY

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