Antonyms for offscourings


Grammar : Noun
Spell : awf-skouuh r-ing, -skou-er-, of-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔfˌskaʊər ɪŋ, -ˌskaʊ ər-, ˈɒf-


Definition of offscourings

  • As in waste : noun garbage, refuse
Example sentences :
  • All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.
  • Extract from : « Gold » by Stewart White
  • The offscourings of prison and dockyards, sent over to work on the plantations before slave labor was introduced.
  • Extract from : « The Minute Man of the Frontier » by W. G. Puddefoot
  • A populace composed of the offscourings of all nations—the dirtiest, roughest, one can imagine.
  • Extract from : « Jonathan and His Continent » by Max O'Rell
  • These were the offscourings of both armies, and of the negro population of that region.
  • Extract from : « A Captain in the Ranks » by George Cary Eggleston
  • These offscourings of mankind are to be received into your territory and your cities that you may carry on war.
  • Extract from : « The Oxford Reformers » by Frederic Seebohm
  • It will be remembered these foreign regiments of Napoleonic wars were composed of the offscourings of Europe.
  • Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
  • It was not so easy to fill the empty berth in the forecastle, even from the offscourings of the docks.
  • Extract from : « Sheila of Big Wreck Cove » by James A. Cooper
  • The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters.
  • Extract from : « Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton » by Anonymous
  • All other nationalities came and went freely, and here was a gathering of the offscourings of the earth.
  • Extract from : « Ulric the Jarl » by William O. Stoddard
  • There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom.
  • Extract from : « The Right Stuff » by Ian Hay

Synonyms for offscourings

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