Synonyms for offscourings
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : awf-skouuh r-ing, -skou-er-, of- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔfˌskaʊər ɪŋ, -ˌskaʊ ər-, ˈɒf- |
Top 10 synonyms for offscourings Other synonyms for the word offscourings
Définition of offscourings
- As in waste : noun garbage, refuse
- 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
Antonyms for offscourings
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