dv said:

party_pants said:

Didn’t even know that was a word. Solved it on the last guess through brute force attack.

Unsatisfying.

I’ve mostly seen it in negative film reviews.

Wordle, on a New York Times website.

New York, with a lot of eastern European immigrants making their home there in the mid-19th Century.
Leading to https://www.etymonline.com/word/dreck