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Definition of Rubbished
1. rubbish [v] - See also: rubbish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubbished
Literary usage of Rubbished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development Decade?: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004 by Vishnu Padayachee (2006)
"Just as GEAR rubbished any latent applicability of the RDP as the vehicle for
economic transformation, so too was the oft-stated 'leading' role of the ANC's ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"A great advantage to be derived from such a supply, is that the teas sold would
be genuine, and not adulterated and he-rubbished, as is now the case, ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"There is not a single box of tea, after all the pains taken by the country makers,
that is not opened and extensively be-rubbished by the Canton dealers ..."
4. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1855)
"There is not a single box of tea, after all the pains taken by the country makers,
that is not opened and extensively be rubbished by the Canton dealers ..."
5. The Influence of Christ in Modern Life: Being a Study of the New Problems of by Newell Dwight Hillis (1900)
"Happily our generation has fallen upon an age when a thousand errors are being
swept away from truth so long be-rubbished. Reverently, sincerely, accept ..."
6. The Influence of Christ in Modern Life: Being a Study of the New Problems of by Newell Dwight Hillis (1900)
"... Never was there a book so be-trashed and be- rubbished. Coming to it through
commentators has been like looking out upon the sun through a window over ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1866)
"retched," " rubbished ;" and Duncan and Flockhart, the well- known firm of
druggists, she made " Doctor and Forrit." By the assistance of lier sister, ..."