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trashy

[ trash-ee ]

adjective

, trash·i·er, trash·i·est.
  1. of the nature of trash; inferior in quality; rubbishy; useless or worthless.
  2. (of a field) strewn with trash, especially the withered vegetation from an earlier crop.


trashy

/ ˈtræʃɪ /

adjective

  1. cheap, worthless, or badly made


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtrashiness, noun
  • ˈtrashily, adverb

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Other Words From

  • trashi·ly adverb
  • trashi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of trashy1

First recorded in 1610–20; trash + -y 1

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Example Sentences

They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays.

The four or five thrillers a year that de Villiers churned out from 1966 until his death in 2013 were amazingly trashy.

Consider the trashy, silky sweatpants sent down the runway by Jarrar, complete with thick stripes running down the legs.

Couture Week in Paris is a blur of highly-priced luxury, some of it luxe, some of it trashy-looking.

Sure, her looks may be designer, but, as she has been described countless times, here style is still trashy.

They talk and think about it enough in a certain way, and with such poor aids as trashy novels and paltry gossip.

Dr. Farrar made thousands out of his trashy volumes, and his publishers netted a fortune.

Trashy thought and base utterance could not cheat his soul of her integrity; the vileness of Salt Lane had nothing to do with him.

When a steamer is about to start, book-pedlers crowd on board with baskets full of their—generally speaking—trashy ware.

They have no taste for history or biography, or anything but cheap, trashy, sensational novels.

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