riffraff
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chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste
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Aaron wants stars, aspiring-stars, and pure riffraff in the same loud room with garage ops and billion-dollar corporations. — Cole Louison, GQ, "Agenda Trade Show Founder Aaron Levant's Long, Strange Trip," 3 Apr. 2018 Right now, companies and governments want to make sure that the riffraff is out of the space so that the masses can trust it. — Rose Minutaglio, Cosmopolitan, "3 Things You Should Know About Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies," 31 Jan. 2018 She was raised on a 3,000-acre cattle ranch in Santa Barbara, and in isolation since, in Francis’s view, even the local gentry was riffraff. — Lili Anolik, Vanities, "Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick: A Brief, White-Hot, and Totally Doomed Romance," 14 Dec. 2017 But at Goethals, prospective buyers have to pass a screening interview with Mr. Valente, who keeps out the riffraff. — Anne Kadet, WSJ, "Staten Island Special: City’s Only Trailer Park Fetches Record Price for New Home," 17 Oct. 2017 This is much more than rich people participating in some fight to keep the riffraff off the lake. — Washington Post, "Supporters of dead lake plan say rich residents are to blame," 27 Aug. 2017 Decapitated the Mexicans. Erected steel walls to keep the riffraff out. Sucked these hills barren of gold. — John Timpane, Philly.com, "Sam Shepard: Man of the theater; the theater of a man," 31 July 2017 Looking freshly unexpected need not mean transmitting the careless disregard of today's airport riffraff. — J.j. Martin, Harper's BAZAAR, "What to Wear at Night," 18 Nov. 2008 Here's how Cheryl K. Chumley at the Washington Times puts it: Clearing the colleges of riffraff; bringing back the atmosphere of learning and critical thinking. — The Tylt, AL.com, "Are colleges harming America?," 18 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'riffraff.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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