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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