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- adjective Like
garbage ;trashy ,worthless .
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Examples
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There seems to be a lot of controversy about whether it was a shitty speech or garbagey speech today, but one thing I haven't seen anybody talking about was the pictures lined up behind Obama.
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We perused garbagey yard sales at a local “Pumpkin Fest.”
Behind the Wheel: Saab TurboX Wagon: Brett Berk Berk, Brett 2008
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Every little piece of plastic means another chunk of farmland, another piece of our floating, garbagey empire.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Yarrr, mateys. Set sail for Garbage Island. 2007
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There are some fun moments here; Coupland is still good at chronicling the garbagey undertow of our culture.
Dept. of Fiction. bradamant 2007
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So after being sufficiently annoyed by use of “sci-fi” in the general culture, the SF fans turned “sci-fi” into a pejorative used to refer to garbagey monster movies and the like, and pronounced it “skiffy”.
The New Comprehensible, or, This is Not a Literary Manifesto, Thank God « Whatever 2007
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It was already fiercely hot and a ripe, garbagey smell came from the streets.
Manhattan Is My Beat Deaver, Jeffery 1989
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Some garbagey parts of it have decomposed significantly, others not at all; most of it is still quite recognizable but much of the vegetation has a grayish coating of microorganisms or has begun to turn light brown.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon
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Apple's always had a leg to stand on against straight-up knockoff artists, and the patent contains references to a bunch of blog posts about garbagey street gear plastered with Apple logos, but this also gives them a little more strength-or at least the image of strength-against larger companies that Apple wants to take on in court.
Gizmodo John Herrman 2010
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Apple's always had a leg to stand on against straight-up knockoff artists, and the patent contains references to a bunch of blog posts about garbagey street gear plastered with Apple logos, but this also gives them a little more strength-or at least the image of strength-against larger companies that Apple wants to take on in court.
Gizmodo John Herrman 2010
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Unless one day I have a child and it dies, that garbagey period of my life will always be my personal "worst of it."
NOGOODFORME.COM 2009
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