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What are dregs?

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Noun
  1. (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
  2. (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
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The tabloids condemned them, not unfittingly, as the curdled dregs of an outmoded caste.
All you want to do now, apart from sip wanly at the dregs of that satisfying Shiraz, is stump upstairs and crash into a nicely turned down bed.
At one end are public figures whilst at the other are the dregs of society.
The film is so good at anti-glamour that it made me question my fondness for other movies about society's dregs.
When the cheese is used up, the dregs are allowed to brown on the bottom of the container and then scraped off and shared.
Easy as it would be to dismiss them as fools or worse, they are not the dregs of society but instead the wrong people in the wrong circumstance.

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