trashy
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But this could be the perfect trashy romp for the end of summer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The fights were still good, even if White’s matchups started prioritizing personality conflicts over actual talent, and the theatrics had a trashy sort of appeal I could get behind.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
In it, Slayyyter explores her hometown roots, family dynamics and desire at her most trashy, mournful, hungry and loud; as the “Worst Girl in America,” Slayyyter is raw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
A disco ball, aka “myriad reflector,” can turn any trashy hellhole into a party space, especially if you don’t look too closely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
“I’d rather have a yard filled with genuine garbage than with trashy lawn ornaments.”
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
The show needed something simultaneously higher-minded and trashier: deeper emotional insight brought about by a seething crucible of plot.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019
Sunday night’s VMAs — a night even trashier than the Golden Globes, of course — would follow.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2017
“The Girl on the Train” is the trashier, paperback version.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2016
Prada admits to a trashier side, and she lit up when I said I wanted to talk to her about Elizabeth Taylor’s diamonds.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2013
The trashier it gets, the better; I'm not interested in Kramer Vs Kramer or The People Vs Larry Flynt – no Oscars, thanks!
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
Goldman Sachs pointed out in a recent report that a basket of heavily shorted stocks, often considered the trashiest of the trash, had surged 24% in just the past month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
Murdoch made Povich a famous man by bankrolling one of the trashiest shows on TV.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022
He appeared on “The Love Boat” TV series, which was the trashiest thing of the ’80s.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
He said his office received 3,000 phone calls “with many being the trashiest you can imagine” after a state party convention last weekend awarded all 34 delegates to Cruz.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
Of course much worthless literature, fiction of the trashiest, has been circulated in the same way—much more perhaps than of the better class.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
