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Trashy is an English word with synonyms like tawdry or tatty. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Trashy meaning

  1. Like trash; having low quality and a perceived lack of depth, especially of books and films.
  2. Indecent or lacking class.
  3. Having or generating a lot of trash.

Using Trashy

  • The main meaning on this page is: Like trash; having low quality and a perceived lack of depth, especially of books and films. | Indecent or lacking class. | Having or generating a lot of trash.
  • Useful related words include: rubbishy, tawdry, tatty, tacky.
  • In the example corpus, trashy often appears in combinations such as: the trashy, and trashy, trashy and.

Context around Trashy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Trashy

  • In this selection, "trashy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, something, things, acting, reality, antics and novel stand out and add context to how "trashy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include all things trashy and and the trashy antics of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "trashy" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and absolve, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with trashy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Grown women acting trashy for a paycheck. (7 words)

Culture critic and podcast host joins us to talk all things trashy. (12 words)

This week: trashy weather, cops defunded by getting a plane, and Liam Neeson's ninja training school. (17 words)

The third season is set to find Lestat "resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller 'Interview With the Vampire'" and will see him "set his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. (45 words)

I Know What You Did Last Summer” didn’t get picked up for a second season on Amazon Prime (total shame; it was amazingly trashy and fun), a sequel to the movie is apparently in the works, to another Deadline report. (41 words)

For the past two weeks, Netflix’s top global movie has been – a feel-good trashy festive rom-com that sees two ‘resentful exes’ forced to spend Christmas together when their partners turn out to be siblings. (37 words)

What makes me angry is station’s putting on stupid game shows and trashy reality shows that kids should definately not being watching! (23 words)

Example sentences (20)

But there remains something trashy and fun about the “Saw” entries, even in their bad-TV police procedural stretches and ponderous obeisance to David Fincher’s “Seven,” the granddaddy of faux-moralistic violence.

Culture critic and podcast host joins us to talk all things trashy.

Grown women acting trashy for a paycheck.

If you've loved reality TV for a long time, I'm sure you've heard it all from people about the genre being "trashy" or "mind-numbing" or "low-brow".

I Know What You Did Last Summer” didn’t get picked up for a second season on Amazon Prime (total shame; it was amazingly trashy and fun), a sequel to the movie is apparently in the works, to another Deadline report.

Miami Swim Week has been branded 'trashy' by industry insiders after outrageous 'duct tape bikini' trend leaving models to walk the runway almost naked divided the fashion world: 'It's almost comical'.

Paired with an all-black bodysuit, Moesha makes it look trendy instead of trashy, and it surprisingly works.

That, and the trashy antics of his sons and other players who seemed to show absolutely no respect for anyone.

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Then, as we got older, we would choose for ourselves, although I do remember her hiding the trashy novel from us, which only made us more determined to find it among the more highbrow literature.

This week: trashy weather, cops defunded by getting a plane, and Liam Neeson's ninja training school.

For the past two weeks, Netflix’s top global movie has been – a feel-good trashy festive rom-com that sees two ‘resentful exes’ forced to spend Christmas together when their partners turn out to be siblings.

Home affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael said: “Instead of placing a trashy bet on the Rwanda scheme, the prime minister should put his money where his mouth is on the soaring NHS backlog.

It's at least semi-serviceable for those who enjoy these kinds of trashy movies, but everyone else should avoid it like the plague.

On the surface it may seem like another trashy reality TV series, but the premise highlights an ongoing mission of Chatfield's: men need to learn to treat women better.

Rayne claimed she wouldn’t have signed up for 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days if she knew how “trashy and unevolved” the reality TV producers would be.

Richie Sambora teases his guitar as drummer Tico Torres hits a chime like a countdown clock for a trashy garage-rock epic.

She seizes on the format of “Big Brother,” a new hit show in the Netherlands, but the bigwigs are averse to anything they deem trashy.

These elements are tantalizingly trashy, but they don’t provoke just for the sake of provocation — or, as in the case of “Saltburn,” just to show us how vulgar and unhinged its players are.

The third season is set to find Lestat "resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller 'Interview With the Vampire'" and will see him "set his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour.

What makes me angry is station’s putting on stupid game shows and trashy reality shows that kids should definately not being watching!

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Common combinations with trashy

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "trashy" in a sentence?
An example: "But there remains something trashy and fun about the “Saw” entries, even in their bad-TV police procedural stretches and ponderous obeisance to David Fincher’s “Seven,” the granddaddy of faux-moralistic violence." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "trashy" from authentic English texts.
What does "trashy" mean?
Trashy means: Like trash; having low quality and a perceived lack of depth, especially of books and films.
What are synonyms of "trashy"?
Common synonyms of "trashy" include: rubbishy, tawdry, tatty, tacky, meretricious, loud, gimcrack, gaudy. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "trashy" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "trashy", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.