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Definition of Trashy
1. Adjective. Cheap and inferior; of no value. "Trashy merchandise"
2. Adjective. Tastelessly showy. "Tawdry ornaments"
Similar to: Tasteless
Derivative terms: Cheapness, Flash, Flashiness, Garishness, Garishness, Gaud, Gaudiness, Gaudiness, Loudness, Meretriciousness, Tackiness, Tat, Tawdriness, Trashiness
Definition of Trashy
1. a. Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
Definition of Trashy
1. Adjective. Like trash; containing much trash ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trashy
1. resembling trash [adj TRASHIER, TRASHIEST] : TRASHILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trashy
Literary usage of Trashy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leaves of a Life: Being the Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams, Percy Lefroy, George Henry Lamson (1890)
"... and Walter Belt charged with fraud—Paying £8000 for trashy jewels—The sentence on
... trashy ..."
2. Notices of Public Libraries in the United States of America by Charles Coffin Jewett (1851)
"The library is " well selected, free from all corrupting and trashy literature,
and adapted to form a taste for useful and solid reading. ..."
3. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"... of early English horses—Difficulties about pedigrees in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries—Early accumulations very trashy—The Galloways and Irish ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley (1857)
"The trumpery and trashy journals with which we were too familiar only a few years
ago, have given place to a much higher and more wholesome tone of writing; ..."
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