scathing dissent, nostrum, rubbished, trash, vandalised, symbolic, single-use, objects deliberately thrown away.

Egerton Ryerson's statue had already been vandalised over the recent discovery of a mass grave of 215 indigenous children at a school.

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“Justices of this Court are not scientists,” Kagan began in her scathing dissent. “Nor do we know much about public health policy. Yet today the Court displaces the judgments of experts about how to respond to a raging pandemic. … That mandate defies our caselaw, exceeds our judicial role, and risks worsening the pandemic.”



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This 3,500-year-old object is a single-use cup made in ancient Crete, shown here with a modern counterpart. Around this time, thousands of these small conical cups were made cheaply and quickly from clay – perhaps used for serving wine at feasts.
They have been discovered in large numbers at archaeological sites across the island, indicating that they were often deliberately thrown away. The objects in our new free display were all once discarded as ‘rubbish’, but have since been acquired by the Museum for their historical or social significance.

The show looks at our past and current relationship with rubbish, how it has been an unavoidable by-product of being human, and how discarded material is having a devastating impact on the environment around the world. Read more: http://ow.ly/sIwF30q3i14
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Vandalised - definition of Vandalised by The Free Dictionary






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van·dal·ize ... To damage or destroy (another's property) willfully or maliciously. van′dal·i·za′tion (-ĭ-zā′shən) n.

malware
(MALicious softWARE) Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan.

rubbish
noun [U]
1 MAINLY UK (MAINLY US garbage, US ALSO trash) waste material or unwanted or worthless things:
I forgot to put the rubbish out for collection this morning.
Put the empty box in the rubbish bin.
Take the old furniture to the rubbish dump.

2 INFORMAL something that you think is very low quality or not true:
The film was rubbish.
His ideas are a load of (old) rubbish.

rubbish
verb [T] UK INFORMAL
to criticize:
Why does everyone rubbish my ideas?

rubbishy
adjective MAINLY UK INFORMAL
very low quality:
a rubbishy film

scathing

Line breaks: scath¦ing

Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪðɪŋ/

adjective

• Witheringly scornful; severely critical: she launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister
  

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scathingly

adverb

trash
n.

1. 1. Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.
   2. Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.
   3. The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
2. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: threw the wrapper in the trash.
3. 1. Empty words or ideas.
   2. Worthless or offensive literary or artistic material.
   3. Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
4. A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.

tr.v., trashed, trash·ing, trash·es.

1. Slang.
   1. To throw away; discard: trashed the broken toaster.
   2. To wreck or destroy by or as if by vandalism; reduce to trash or ruins.
   3. To beat up; assault.
   4. To subject to scathing criticism or abuse; attack verbally: "The ... professor trashes conservative ... proposals as well as liberal nostrums" (Michael Marien).
1. To remove twigs or branches from.
2. To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).

nostrum 

Pronunciation: /ˈnɒstrəm/ 

NOUN

1A medicine prepared by an unqualified person, especially one that is not considered effective:a charlatan who sells nostrums

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1.1A scheme or remedy for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement:right-wing nostrums such as a wage freeze and cutting public spending

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Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin, used in the sense '(something) of our own making', neuter ofnoster 'our'.