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.
• Which, back in the day, was kind of a trashy thing to wear to the afterlife.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
• By that point, the bear had strolled into the store looking for less a trashy snack.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Flashy, gaudy, trashy and thin on story, just like the Vegas myth.
  — Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• 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
• Their taste in books is not too trashy, not too literary.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 23 May 2024
• 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
• Trixie Mattel is great as Sharon Frockavich, a nice blend of crass, flashy and trashy.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Play a favorite song, call your best friend, go for a walk or read a trashy magazine.
  — NBC News, 24 May 2017
• Yards smothered with slimy, brown leaves look trashy, like nobody cares.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Check out how to put together a cute (but not trashy) costume.
  — Seventeen, 12 Nov. 2010
• 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
• 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
• There’s a thin line between trashy summer reads and meaty, good, summer reads.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2017
• In every racial and ethnic group there are trashy people.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
• This is the trashy side of the news, against which respectable journalism defines itself.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Yet the other end of the spectrum—trashy reality TV— is painful, too.
  — Sarah Seltzer, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2017
• But their families ate the fish at home because here’s nothing trashy at all about them.
  — Debbie Moose, charlotteobserver, 3 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This pre-apocalyptic scenario is not the plot of a trashy new sci-fi novel.
  — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
• Nothing like a flood to reveal the trashy side of humanity.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024