rubbishy

[ ruhb-i-shee ]

adjective

1. full of rubbish:

   a rubbishy cellar.

2. suggestive of rubbish; trashy:

   a rubbishy book.

rubbishy

/ ˈrʌbɪʃɪ /

adjective

1. worthless; of poor quality; useless

Word History and Origins

Origin of rubbishy¹

First recorded in 1785–95; rubbish + -y ¹

Example Sentences

"It made their nights for them to have a little bit of happiness at the end of a rubbishy year," he said.

From BBC

You cannot get a room in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel for a month at the moment - and that will be a small rubbishy room.

From Reuters

A little, rubbishy wavelet, full of candy wrappers and orange peel and seaweed, folded over my foot.

From Literature

“Stylo Barratts were a big multiple shoe store and they got George Best to put his name on a football boot – it was on a lump of rubbishy plastic and didn’t ever sell,” he says.

From The Guardian

I long for one, just one, rubbishy and insolently random and hard to get rid of and perennially yellow as the sun.

From Literature

Related Words

• bad
• poor