0 something that has no use or no value:
So much of what's on TV is pure dross.
We read all the manuscripts but 95 percent are dross.
One wonders who, part from libraries, will pay for a good deal of dross that includes a few plums.
This included much that would conventionally be regarded as dross.
Even the best search strategy on a topic will still find a huge amount of dross.
Distracted by these displays of 'innovation', we ignore at our peril the production of dross that goes on anyway.
Or, better stated: there is no dross, there is no gold.
More archival document than edited publication, the reader encounters both dross and riches.
I do know how to rake the dross and pour metal.
We have seen the consequences of that on the "dross"—a word used by local newspapers.