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waste paper

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Noun1.waste paperwaste paper - paper discarded after use            
paper - a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses


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They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, but the very materials on which they were written were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
The duplicates in the hands of Bulpit Brothers were literally waste paper.
Miss or Mrs.? by Collins, Wilkie View in context
when I am at the mercy of every scribbler in the Palais Royal who covers waste paper with nonsense, or of every country squire in the kingdom.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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