wreckish

English

Etymology

From wreck + -ish.

Adjective

wreckish (comparative more wreckish, superlative most wreckish)

  1. Like or resembling a wreck
    • 2000, Daniel Wallace, Ray in Reverse:
      But there was nothing wreckish about it.
    • 2012, Barbara Skelton, 'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More':
      Would like to write a more amusing letter but feel too wreckish.
    • 2013, E. Nesbit, Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit:
      And when we had got free, and gazed around on the wreckish results the stoutest of us quailed.

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