drossy

Thus was the roofe adorn'd: but for the bed, The which those sacred limmes encanaped, I could say much: yet poised with her selfe, That gorgeous worke did seeme but drossy pelfe.

From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Paul William Miller

Time will sift it of its drossy puffs and praises.

From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by J. L. Cherry

Amongst the drossy twaddle which passed current as poetry at Eartham, a sonnet in Romney's honour by a true poet—William Cowper—may be counted as pure gold.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

For most part, too, we must admit that the Learning, heterogeneous as it is, and tumbled-down quite pell-mell, is true concentrated and purified Learning, the drossy parts smelted out and thrown aside.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

But spoyl’d, and rob’d, his drossier Glories gone, His Virtue and his Truth are still his own.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones