Kid Nation is yet another dreggy example of how the TV suits are desperate for ideas to keep the reality gravey train no SAG rules/pay rates, no WGA scripts, no real actors, etclurching along. From Wordnik.com. [“Kid Nation” Hits Few Spots - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
But more than by anything concerning the men and women of this neighbourhood, one is impressed by the swarm of dreggy children playing their poor little pavement games in the shadow of these lodging-houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
All thy pasture-lands with the dreggy rush may encompass. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
To Jess, accustomed to the mild but beautiful savor of a country town, the dreggy Bohemia was sugar and spice. From Wordnik.com. [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference
• For the above-mentioned strength-of-schedule purposes, frontrunners TCU and Utah would prefer that the dregs of the Mountain West not be quite so dreggy this year, but the early returns are that they might be even dreggier. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
She hung up her hat, patting at her hair in the little square of mirror above the stationary washstand, looking back at herself out of eyes a bit dreggy with tiredness, but her skin so deep in its whiteness that it was almost as if its creamy quality had congealed of mere richness. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
Down in the dreggy darkness of his breast. From Wordnik.com. [A Child-World] Reference
Fall'n slow and dreggy from them; such in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II] Reference
When he was tired the drier said he was 'dreggy.'. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
2.2: ‘grumly,’ muddy, dreggy. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
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