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junkheap
noun as in sanitary landfill
noun as in scrap heap
Example Sentences
And Toynbee tells that out of the twenty-two civilizations that have risen up, all but about seven have found themselves in the junkheap of destruction.
What's more, the good quality design and planning stop abruptly at the boundaries of the park: you don't have to go very far before the stardust fades into the junkheap of Stratford town centre, where worn but serviceable old buildings are overlain by some of the most grotesque public art known to man and overlooked by exploitative apartment towers of developers' tat.
They weren't successful in treating and evolving the product enough, it was basically this junkheap of bad design that persisted for many many years.
Just this week, Parker said Myspace's fall from grace was down to it being a "junkheap of bad design", while Facebook blossomed with lots of new features.
His monologues very possibly constitute the most direct and original route into the junkheap of the adolescent mind that any moviemaker has yet found.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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