(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
(4) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(5) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(6) Water is no longer chlorinated, rubbish isn't collected anymore.
(7) Eaton Square is one of the poshest addresses in London – the rubbish left outside the six-storey houses include empty Pol Roger bottles; one or two buildings have flags (not British) or blue plaques detailing how the likes of Neville Chamberlain once lived there.
(8) I don’t even think about [Isis] – I look at the news and I’m like OK they’re just talking rubbish, and I turn it off.
(9) And, nearly as famously, he actually threw his only draft of it away at one point, until his wife convinced him to rescue it from the rubbish.
(10) "The only musical tradition then was heavy metal, rubbish cover bands and crooners like Tony Christie."
(11) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.
(12) Around 200,000 still live in flimsy shelters on rubbish-strewn wastelands.
(13) But still, you know that when Manchester United is coming, we have to pay much more than another club, so that’s also an analysis, and it is not rubbish what I am saying.” Gill was also critical of the playing style.
(14) The march in the capital came in direct response to the government’s announcement on Friday that its investigation has established that dozens of young people were massacred in a rubbish dump outside the town of Cocula, that borders Iguala.
(15) Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch officer, said: "Despite last summer being seen as a washout by many with heavy rain in many places, it appears those people that did visit our beaches left behind a lot of personal litter – sweet wrappers, ice cream wrappers and plastic drinks bottles failed to find their way into rubbish bins and ended up being dropped and left behind.
(16) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
(17) On 7 November Murillo announced that the authorities had collected badly burned human bone fragments from a rubbish tip outside of a neighbouring town called Cocula.
(18) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
(19) We are constantly faced with others forcing their rubbish on us.
(20) They would take a rubbish bag but they would still leave stuff behind," said Tshering Tenzing Sherpa, an official of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, the NGO charged with overseeing the Everest cleanup.
Senseless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
Example Sentences:
(1) But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence."
(2) But they need to do all they can to prevent the senseless violence and killing."
(3) Nobody can offer, let alone embrace, any rationale for the Newtown assault: it was random, indiscriminate, senseless and deliberate slaughter of innocents.
(4) The infant's rights to life without constant pain are also violated by the senseless prolongation of his life and the promotion of wrongful life through the excessive use of modern technology.
(5) The promoters added: “We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless violence.
(6) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
(7) Security around the airport was tightened and an investigation into the "terrible, senseless crime" was under way, said Boris Rhein, interior minister for the state of Hesse.
(8) Occurring in approximately 2% of adults, OCD consists of recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) or senseless repetitive actions (compulsions).
(9) The victims are frequently unidentified and the motive unclear, but the senselessness was all too evident.
(10) The frequency of senseless gun-related deaths in America continues unabated.
(11) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
(12) On Twitter , Wade lamented what he called another “act of senseless gun violence” which meant “4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON”.
(13) The Department for Education has appointed one of its "brokers" to find the school a sponsor, and a local action group is fighting against a plan that scores of local people think is senseless.
(14) These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable,” Nicholas Haysom, the UN’s special representative for Afghanistan , said in a statement on Wednesday.
(15) The defense secretary, Ash Carter, said in a statement: “My thoughts and prayers – along with those of the men and women of the US Department of Defense – are with the families of those killed in this senseless act of violence and with all those touched by this tragedy.” The Associated Press contributed to this report • This article was amended on 17 July 2015 to correct the spelling of Hixson, Tennessee.
(16) If national politics has been breaking your heart or boring you senseless I suggest you talk yourself out of your alienation and tune in for the next couple of weeks, because stuff – it’s going to get interesting.
(17) Most Midwestern areas have small cities and towns, and most of our trauma results from accidents, not deliberate, senseless human acts.
(18) The Spanish full-back is prone to rashness but the two-footed lunge from behind on Naismith was senseless even by his standards.
(19) The brief flurry of liberal street protest in 2011 and 2012 was ruthlessly snuffed out by the Kremlin, and many have suggested that, far from a liberal revolution, the most likely revolt in Russia is the “senseless and merciless” Russian uprising of which Alexander Pushkin wrote.
(20) An attempt was made to enhance (by means of instruction) the verbal labeling and recall of schematic pictures which uninformed Ss tended to perceive as senseless.