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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trashy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of people characterize romance as trashy books.
▪ A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for Christmas than a trashy song cooked up as a commercial gimmick.
▪ Was it prestigious or trashy to be a disco diva?
▪ Was there anything ever so mangy, trashy, as these potted objects?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trashy

Trashy \Trash"y\, a. [Compar. Trashier; superl. Trashiest.] Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trashy

"worthless, resembling trash," 1610s, from trash (n.) + -y (2). Related: Trashiness.

Wiktionary
trashy

a. Like trash; containing much trash

WordNet
trashy
  1. adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise" [syn: rubbishy]

  2. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry]

  3. [also: trashiest, trashier]

Usage examples of "trashy".

Perrises down there, trashy folk, fighting and stealing, running in a pack with the other trash.

She was not the heroine of some trashy romance, with dark secrets lurking in the background.

He stood, as if planted, in the cold trashy evacuation floodlight and smiled persistently.

I must admit I was unsettled by the parody of my name being used in a trashy novel, but the whole thing was nonsense.

The vendors of the less noxious-looking cookery and beverages and less trashy gimcracks they let line the entranceway.

And tell you what a lousy job you did on that radio show last night when you were plugging your trashy album.

Well, I got in amongst the trashy bushes, sloughed and plowed my head around, and finally unhooked the epidermis from my upper and lower jaws.

She told me to tell you that she always said writing that trashy pornography would get you in trouble some day.

Advertising was considered a low occupation for persons of any sensibility, shallow and trashy, and anyway a working woman was earning pin money and should stay home and take better care of the children.

This girl of mine reads pretty trashy stuff, and she knows about all the cheap novels there are.

Bodies of Bandits and Rats and Dinks, sprawled in grotesque postures of death, littered the trashy streets.

I read an article that was printed in one of those trashy tabloids about two years after the trial.

Larry Underwood woke up near the big white house in eastern New Hampshire, Trashy crossed the Missouri north of Council Bluffs and entered Nebraska.

The dark man had come to him every previous night in dreams, but when Trashy crossed into Nebraska, the dark man came no more.

Old Trashy was going to end up riding a crosspiece just like Hec Drogan.