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Rubbishing

Interesting fact
Each human generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, mostly paper.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Rubbishing
    trashy: paltry
Quotations
Norman Douglas
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
Mark Twain
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Myrtle Barker
Edward M. Forster
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Edward M. Forster
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
William A. Orton
Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose Bierce
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. robows, robeux—O. Fr. robeux, pl. of robel, dim. of robe, robbe, trash, whence also rubble; cf. It. roba, rubbish, spoil.

Usage in the news

Idea that Jesus had wife 'rubbish' and other letters to the editor. timesfreepress.com

The overflow of rubbish has inspired an artistic movement to effect change. csmonitor.com

I watched 60 Minutes and saw Bob Simon's story on the exodus of Christians from Israel and the West Bank and thought it was a complete load of rubbish. spectator.org

Islamabad 's wild boars, which feast on rubbish outside homes and restaurants, are said to be a major cause of traffic accidents. globalpost.com

(AP) — An eastern Tennessee man has won what became the battle of the bowl when the city cited his front yard toilet planter as rubbish. monroenews.com

Two incidents or scattering rubbish in Monroe County are being probed. tnonline.com

We keep 61.5 percent of our rubbish out of the landfill — three-quarters of a ton for every one of us. registerguard.com

Rubbish haulers owe county millions. hawaiitribune-herald.com

New data shows less rubbish went to California landfills in 2011. kpbs.org

Brilliant or rubbish , visitors at London Olympics may wonder what the locals are saying. vancouversun.com

Jackson, Van Gundy rumors are ` rubbish . ashingtontimes.com

Jackson, Van Gundy rumors are ' rubbish '. kxii.com

Sam Presti Calls Phil Jackson Rumors " Rubbish ". blog.newsok.com

Rubbish recycled into art. columbian.com

Fire department Spokesperson Marlee Boenig says a track hoe operator was picking up rubbish with a claw, when he picked up a small cylinder of unknown gas. bko.com

Usage in scientific papers

All reduced positive weights of the form χ + P ±µi , where χ > 0 is not reduced and all µi > 0 are twisting, are called rubbish weights.
Hermitian Characteristics of Nilpotent Elements

We shall draw a diagram with the set of vertices given by not reduced and rubbish weights and arrows indexed by twisting weights: an arrow µ has a tail χ1 and a head χ2 if and only if [gχ1 , gµ ] = gχ2 .
Hermitian Characteristics of Nilpotent Elements

We shall use big Latin letters for not reduced weights, small Latin letters for rubbish weights, and numbers for twisting weights.
Hermitian Characteristics of Nilpotent Elements

The agent holding this book may well believe in page one but think that the guidelines of page three are rubbish: in particular, he considers the pattern down-up-down to correspond to no trading signal at all.
Designing agent-based market models

Harry neared the bottom of the pile of newspapers. [/Harry] [Hedwig] Hedwig made no movement as she began to flick through newspapers, throwing them into the rubbish pile one by one.
CoZo+ - A Content Zoning Engine for textual documents

Usage in literature

But as the customer left the shop his eye fell on the box, he turned over the rubbish in it, and at last selected a volume. "The Book-Hunter in London" by William Roberts

And we'll help them to start clearing away all the rubbish. "A Campfire Girl's Test of Friendship" by Jane L. Stewart

You think I will give a thousand pounds for your rubbish? "Paul Patoff" by F. Marion Crawford

For the closet is a particularly large one and has always been stored with rubbish. "The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World" by Margaret Vandercook

He was rather addicted to let rubbish lie till stern necessity forced him to clear it away. "The Fugitives" by R.M. Ballantyne

But the murderer only took the rubbish a vagabond was likely to have on him. "The Bishop's Secret" by Fergus Hume

You set me thinking and asking myself questions about why not, and all that sort of rubbish. "Dead Man's Land" by George Manville Fenn

The sidewalks were littered with rubbish, diagonally flattened papers, broken boxes, odd shoes. "Greener Than You Think" by Ward Moore

The Rabbis have a beautiful bit of teaching buried among their rubbish about angels. "Expositions of Holy Scripture" by Alexander Maclaren

They're all rubbish and paste. "An Old Man's Love" by Anthony Trollope

Usage in poetry
Where mounds of rubbish, ugly pits,
And brick-fields scarred the globe;
Those wastes where desolation sits
Without her ancient robe.
The spring-it had simply been you,
And so, to a certain extent,
The summer; but autumn-this scandalous blue
Of wallpaper? Rubbish and felt?
So the church Christ was hit and buried
Under its rubbish and its rubble.
In cellars, packed-up saints long serried,
Well out of hearing of our trouble.
A twist of twill, a hank of hair,
Fit for the rubbish bin;
How Rosemary with scorn would stare
At its pathetic grin!
Yet Marie Rose can lover it,
And with her kisses cover it.
How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.
Climbing the dark halls, I ignore their papers and pails,
the twelve coats of rubbish of someone else's dim life.
Tell them need is an excuse for love. Tell them need prevails.
Tell them I remake and smooth your bed and am your wife.