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as in inappropriate
marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste
I know that sequined shirt cost a lot of money, but I still think it looks kind of trashy
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as in cheap
of low quality
trashy furniture that fell apart after a few weeks
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as in obscene
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
a trashy skin magazine with no pretense to subtlety
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Recent Examples of trashy
My favorites of the period include classy auteur films (Trouble in Paradise, Shanghai Express), fun trashy romps (Baby Face, Night Nurse), social critiques (Heroes for Sale, Wild Boys of the Road), and dazzling extravaganzas (42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933).
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Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
And it was assumed that Edward Berger, whose terrifically trashy Conclave was a lock for Best Picture, would be No. 5.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
Eating dinner at midnight, watching trashy reality TV, and blaring music through our headphones during a run—this is the spice of life.
—The Editors, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2024
Loading your audio article From a fabled punk band to a trashy art exhibit, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
And it was assumed that Edward Berger, whose terrifically trashy Conclave was a lock for Best Picture, would be No. 5.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
Eating dinner at midnight, watching trashy reality TV, and blaring music through our headphones during a run—this is the spice of life.
—The Editors, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2024
Loading your audio article From a fabled punk band to a trashy art exhibit, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trashy
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The league’s reason for not punishing Morant was understanding his intent behind the gesture wasn’t violent, but Morant was advised to refrain from using the inappropriate celebration.—
The Athletic NBA Staff,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Is the ‘Minecraft’ movie inappropriate? Not particularly.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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In the early 1970s, the widespread availability of cheap, preformed fiberglass pools meant the rate of young children drowning soared.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
3 Apr. 2025
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However, note that these are smaller models that could run on a less expensive GPUs or even a CPU with cheaper memory instead of the super expensive HBM memory currently used in all high-end accelerators.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1976 as part of a group show of artists’ books, Santoro’s volume was immediately censored as obscene and offensive.—
Paola Ugolini,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Cybertruck owners have shared displays of hostility from other motorists on a Facebook page, including vulgar notes left on their vehicles and obscene gestures directed at them from passing cars.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps that’s why people around the world have had the impulse to gnaw on tacky materials—roots, resins, twigs, blubber, tar made by burning birch bark—for at least 8,000 years.—
Hannah Seo,
The Atlantic,
29 Mar. 2025
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It’s gotten bad enough that on Tuesday, Donald Trump had his top advisor and megadonor show off Tesla models for a tacky photo-op in the White House driveway, where the president told Americans to support the company and pledged to buy a Model S himself.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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The rhetoric pushed here is that someone with a high body count has less value and will either make a terrible partner or no one will want them in the first place.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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This is great news for our model but terrible for upsets.—
Jordan Brenner,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The childish use of vulgar profanity simply leads peoople to view the speaker as being unable to express his/her view.—
Letters to the editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2025
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Along with receiving vulgar comments in person and people taking her picture on campus, the 18-year-old has received vile and sexist messages after her phone number was posted online.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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If the new wells prove unsuitable for city use, the city has a contingency plan designed for rehabilitation.—
Kyle Martin,
The Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2025
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Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets orbiting white dwarfs would be unsuitable for life because the dynamic temperature decrease of their dead parent star makes their atmospheres too unstable.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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There’s a real debate to be had about what responsibility better-off neighborhoods like Hyde Park have to help solve humanitarian problems that often are laid at the feet of poorer areas.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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The strong United cohort, almost entirely comprised of dominant sides under Ferguson, has not shied away from criticising the club, players and managers when results have been poor.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Trashy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trashy. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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