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trashy

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trash·y  (trsh)
adj. trash·i·er, trash·i·est
1. Resembling or containing trash; cheap or worthless: trashy merchandise.
2. In very poor taste or of very poor quality: "There was a special pathos ... within ... her trashy tales" James Wolcott.

trashi·ly adv.
trashi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.trashytrashy - cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"
worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
2.trashytrashy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste

trashy
adjective worthless, cheap, inferior, shabby, flimsy, shoddy, tawdry, tinsel, thrown together, crappy (slang) meretricious, rubbishy, poxy (slang) catchpenny, cheap-jack (informal) of a sort or of sorts << OPPOSITE excellent
Translations
Spanish trashy [ˈtræʃɪ] adj (col) → chungo
French trashy [ˈtræʃɪ] adj (inf) → de camelote, qui ne vaut rien
German trashy [ˈtræʃɪ] adj [goods] → minderwertig, wertlos (= novel etc); Schund-
Italian trashy [ˈtræʃɪ] adj (col) → scadente

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Harmon Andrews said she supposed Diana had found the name in some trashy novel, and wondered that Fred hadn't more sense than to allow it.
Stout fellers last six or seven years; trashy ones gets worked up in two or three.
The cost of an efficient farm system is now so little-- not more than two dollars a month, that the present trashy lines are certain sooner or later to go to the junk-heap with the sickle and the flail and all the other cheap and unprofitable things.
 
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