dregs

noun

thin impure matter dispersed in water, impurity settled on the bottom or surface of water

Pronunciation: /dɹɛɡz/

Etymology: See dreg.

The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
“For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.”
“And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth / Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged / The black tartareous cold infernal dregs”
The worst and lowest part of something.
“the dregs of society”
“I sat through the dregs of a long hectic evening.”