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Definition of "rubbish-heap" []

  • A pile of rubbish; a mass of worthless or rejected material. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "rubbish-heap" in a sentence
  • "As he had howled, in his puppy days, when he fled back from the Wild to the village to find it vanished and naught but a rubbish-heap to mark the site of Grey"
  • "Even O'Neale's epiphany that Protestantism is just a "monstrous, ever-changing chaos of sectarian contradiction" 249 echoes Protestant claims that Catholicism is just one vast rubbish-heap of irreconcilable arguments."
  • "Every literature, as it grows old, has its rubbish-heap, its record of vanished moments and forgotten lives told in faltering and feeble accents that have perished."