How to Use trashy in a Sentence
trashy
adjective- 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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Which, back in the day, was kind of a trashy thing to wear to the afterlife.
—National Geographic, 16 July 2019
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By that point, the bear had strolled into the store looking for less a trashy snack.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2020
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Flashy, gaudy, trashy and thin on story, just like the Vegas myth.
—Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
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Everything, down to the VIP areas at the front of the theatre, felt like a trashy race down the plughole.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
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Their taste in books is not too trashy, not too literary.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 23 May 2024
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Others might want to be left alone, to do something low-key, like watch a trashy show or go for a walk.
—Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
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Trixie Mattel is great as Sharon Frockavich, a nice blend of crass, flashy and trashy.
—Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
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There’s been a lot of exploitation of the history of Glee, like the recent trashy docuseries The Price of Glee.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2023
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Play a favorite song, call your best friend, go for a walk or read a trashy magazine.
—NBC News, 24 May 2017
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Yards smothered with slimy, brown leaves look trashy, like nobody cares.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
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There are a million ways to isolate someone or kill them, but this is like some trashy thriller.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2020
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Check out how to put together a cute (but not trashy) costume.
—Seventeen, 12 Nov. 2010
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The movie is equal parts clever and trashy, made for people who like to see very good actors play people who are very bad.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
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Step back, though, and the recent stock upswing needn't look so trashy, argues Jon Sindreu for Heard on the Street.
—Wsj Staff, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
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There’s a thin line between trashy summer reads and meaty, good, summer reads.
—The Editors, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2017
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In every racial and ethnic group there are trashy people.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
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This is the trashy side of the news, against which respectable journalism defines itself.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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Eat trashy food, go for a long walk, journal your desires and wishes for the new year or binge-watch zombie movies!
—Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
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For some bizarre reason, out cup has runneth over with fun, trashy, intense shark movies since the summer of 2016.
—Tom Philip, GQ, 15 Jan. 2018
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Yet the other end of the spectrum—trashy reality TV— is painful, too.
—Sarah Seltzer, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2017
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But their families ate the fish at home because here’s nothing trashy at all about them.
—Debbie Moose, charlotteobserver, 3 Apr. 2018
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But that wasn’t the currency in play when Bob Ritchie, coming of age in the late ’80s and ’90s, shaped a sound and image that mixed streetwise flash with a trashy twist.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2019
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Soon, stained dresses and cigars placed in naughty places began one of the most trashy years in modern history.
—Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
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By the time Chris Hemsworth and his torso arrive to raise hell at the trashy hotel El Royale, all of the mysteries have been explained.
—J.r. Kinnard, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
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This pre-apocalyptic scenario is not the plot of a trashy new sci-fi novel.
—Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
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Nothing like a flood to reveal the trashy side of humanity.
—James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2018
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And maybe part of the anger is that this was a (trashy) grand illusion that in certain ways implicated us all.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2023
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Since then, more than 2,300 tons of trash have been diverted from Baltimore’s waterways by Mr. Trash Wheel and his trashy relatives.
—Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
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