dreggy
Americanadjective
adjective
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- dregginess noun
Etymology
Origin of dreggy
Example Sentences
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Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them.
From Literature
This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot.
From Literature
Sandy had no job and lived in a downscale apartment in a dreggy section of town.
From Salon
But I cannot believe that the mountain stock ever received this dreggy mixture from the Shires.
From Project Gutenberg
It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism."
From Time Magazine Archive
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