detritus

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I'm sort of shocked to see such obscene detritus published by them.

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the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

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noun

the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

noun

loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for detritus.

noun

the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

noun

loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks

Example sentences

I'm sort of shocked to see such obscene detritus published by them.

And second, how is this device "immune to dust and detritus"?

The floor is covered in random detritus: a single white sock, a piece of fuzzy green string.

Reddit has its Knights of New that voluntarily click on submitted detritus to improve quality.

Probably detritus recycled from earlier failed attempts at software like "Radio".

Flash is ridiculous on OS X. It leaks memory like a sieve - I once left a few tabs open overnight with Flash ads and your various bits of Flash-based internet detritus, and by the time I woke up my machine was thrashing madly until I manually killed Flash.

Failing fast is problematic, and leaves human detritus...I consider the US public educational system deeply flawed.

The authors do not say that more people are buying cars and houses, but argue that there is greater "housing consumption", a catchall term they use to cover rentals along with the accumulated value of detritus like hand-me-down appliances.