rubbly

American  

[ruhb-lee] / ˈrʌb li /

adjective

rubblier, rubbliest

1. made or consisting of rubble.

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Etymology

Origin of rubbly

First recorded in 1725–35; rubble + -y ¹

Example Sentences

It's far from the dusty landscape of northern Afghanistan where they come from, where often the rubbly roads are not even suitable to walk on.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2023

Many are posed rhetorically by an unseen narrator intoning over a wide shot of a rubbly archaeological site.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2018

And the rubbly piles left behind may be impossible to pin down with an accurate age, which is key to matching glacial history to ocean climate records.

From Scientific American • Mar. 11, 2014

However ghoulish or pro-al-Qaida your tastes, there's only so long you can look at the rubbly remains of a concrete compound before you start to think about lunch.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2013

The bottom was rubbly and she came out of what should have been a refreshing bath all sore from sitting on that wet roughness.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith