Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of being trashy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being trashy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
trashy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
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Examples
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"Audiences at the time flocked to it even as critics foamed over its" trashiness "and
GreenCine Daily 2009
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A few clouds catching the waning rays, turning a radiant pinkish orange, purple around the edges, And underneath the predictable trashiness of some leftover summer visitors, weapons merchants on their yachts anchored in the port, there is a subtle spirituality, a sense of peace and inner expansion.
Gwen Davis: You Can't Go Home Again but You Can Come Back to St. Tropez Gwen Davis 2010
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Part of the reason whyTango & Cash, a kitchen-sink buddy-cop actioner starringSylvester Stallone andKurt Russell, is fondly remembered in spite of its trashiness is that it represented the end of The Stallone Hero Era and the beginning of jaded irony taking hold of youth.
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The large space is great for mind-mapping and other planning doodles, and the trashiness of the medium is definitely liberating.
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And she pulled it off, conveying classiness instead of desperate trashiness.
Grammys 2011: The best, worst and weirdest dressed on the red carpet Jen Chaney 2011
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A few clouds catching the waning rays, turning a radiant pinkish orange, purple around the edges, And underneath the predictable trashiness of some leftover summer visitors, weapons merchants on their yachts anchored in the port, there is a subtle spirituality, a sense of peace and inner expansion.
Gwen Davis: You Can't Go Home Again but You Can Come Back to St. Tropez Gwen Davis 2010
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Even before my posts about it, I have long been obsessed with Wildwood and its unapologetic trashiness.
fourfour: 2009
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A few clouds catching the waning rays, turning a radiant pinkish orange, purple around the edges, And underneath the predictable trashiness of some leftover summer visitors, weapons merchants on their yachts anchored in the port, there is a subtle spirituality, a sense of peace and inner expansion.
Gwen Davis: You Can't Go Home Again but You Can Come Back to St. Tropez Gwen Davis 2010
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While the rest of the TV-watching world melts down about the sexy "Glee" GQ pix, let's talk about a show that embraces its trashiness: "Jersey Shore."
'Jersey Shore' finale: Do we really need alligators? Liz Kelly 2010
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The micro studio The Asylum has made a killing in recent years with Versus movies dimly reminiscent of Toho Studios' Godzilla Vs Mothra/Rodan/Gamera series, offering not just Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus, but Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus and Vampires Vs Zombies, all of which I enjoyed more than Cowboys & Aliens, probably because they're contentedly conscious of their innate, unapologetic trashiness.
Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name 2011
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