Word: rubbishing
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...Frost is outstandingly the greatest living American poet, and his works will appear in anthologies of English poetry when the ridiculous stuff of the Eliots and the Audens has been relegated to the literary rubbish heap where it belongs...
...unfinished autobiography and the unfinished book will not do much to change Leo's status. The autobiography shows him to be an arrogant dilettante claiming an exhaustive knowledge of subjects with which he had had the briefest brushes. At 22, he dismissed history as inaccurate rubbish. At 28, he put all the philosophy worth knowing onto two sheets of note paper...
...some 7,000 small stone castles, it was a prosperous, well-populated land 1,000 years before Christ. Carthage conquered the island in 450 B.C. and reduced its people to a relatively barbaric state. Soon much of Sardinia's ancient sculpture lay buried under layers of silt and rubbish, not to be uncovered again until Italian archeologists began digging it up a century...
When his audience stopped laughing, Churchill got grim again. Said he: "I hope to live to see the British democracy spit all this rubbish from their lips...
...weeks passed, Laradon Hall began to win a few small victories. It cured nine-year-old Billy of pyromania by letting him burn the rubbish each day, until gradually ("Aw, I don't wanna") he lost his interest in lighting fires. Another boy had a mania for stealing keys. So Mrs. Calabrese bought a whole batch of keys for Harold and gave him one whenever he deserved a reward. Now Harold has a pile of keys and has stopped stealing them...