Dreckiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being dreck (junk, garbage). uncountable

    "Or, as Kael wrote of George Lucas when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark, is Spielberg still so "hooked on the crap of his childhood" that he feels a compulsion to keep replicating it on the big screen, in all its unalloyed dreckiness?"

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dreckitudedreckness

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"Or, as Kael wrote of George Lucas when they made Raiders of the Lost Ark, is Spielberg still so "hooked on the crap of his childhood" that he feels a compulsion to keep replicating it on the big screen, in all its unalloyed dreckiness?"

Etymology

From drecky + -ness.

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