drossy
Full of waste
Drossy means containing or resembling dross—the scum or impurities that form on molten metal.
By extension, it describes anything worthless, impure, or of poor quality: drossy ore, drossy writing.
The word is uncommon and somewhat literary, appearing mostly in contexts where something is being dismissed as base or unrefined.
Porous volcanic ejecta
- residueMatter left behind
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- metallurgyScience of extracting metals
flux · refining · ore · foundry · crucible · byproduct · impurity · waste
scoria
Porous volcanic ejecta
metallurgy · flux · refining · ore · foundry · crucible · byproduct · impurity · waste · skimmings
alloyed
Combined with base metals
- adulteratedDiluted with inferior substances
- tarnishedOxidized and discolored
- debasedReduced in worth
corrupted · sullied · tainted · blemished · contaminated · unrefined · base · inferior · degraded · diluted
valueless
Having no worth
inferior · cheap · shoddy · meritless · paltry · negligible · useless · junky · second-rate · low-grade