trashier; trashiest
trashiness
noun
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Examples of trashy in a Sentence
Her outfit was a bit trashy.
I know that sequined shirt cost a lot of money, but I still think it looks kind of trashy.
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Loading your audio article From a fabled punk band to a trashy art exhibit, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond.
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
The Piano Lesson Mati Diop’s probing doc about African cultural heritage and Benin artifacts being recovered to their continental place outclasses the Denzel Washington clan’s trashy version of August Wilson’s reparation ghost story.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
The voters might want to cash in their IOU here, but something tells me the Globes have one truly trashy TV pick in them for this year and will get their Ryan Murphy on with a win for Javier Bardem as the domineering Menendez patriarch.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
This is our fourth installment of Tabloid Fiction, in which an author chooses from the trashiest, most lurid, or just bizarre stories of the moment and writes a short story inspired by same.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
The Piano Lesson Mati Diop’s probing doc about African cultural heritage and Benin artifacts being recovered to their continental place outclasses the Denzel Washington clan’s trashy version of August Wilson’s reparation ghost story.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
The voters might want to cash in their IOU here, but something tells me the Globes have one truly trashy TV pick in them for this year and will get their Ryan Murphy on with a win for Javier Bardem as the domineering Menendez patriarch.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
This is our fourth installment of Tabloid Fiction, in which an author chooses from the trashiest, most lurid, or just bizarre stories of the moment and writes a short story inspired by same.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Trashy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trashy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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