trashy
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But this could be the perfect trashy romp for the end of summer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Some critics have called Your Fault: London clichéd, unnecessary and "fanfiction-like" - Variety said the first film in the trilogy was "a trashy gimmick" and a "tasteless" adaptation of "tawdry teen literature".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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
“Of course I’m not the Hollywood girl. I’m like the trashy Missouri bar girl,” Slayyyter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
“Littlest one, he’s nothin’ but a trashy dog—he’ll run down most anything ’cept what I’m after.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I mean, there were trashier books as well.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
That’s understandable—Thirteen Women is a trashy adaptation of an even trashier novel, which is an awfully thin hook to hang the entire concept of unrealized show business ambitions from—but it’s also a shame.
From Slate ● May 11, 2020
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
The older, more distinguished-looking and bearded the writer, the louder, jauntier and trashier their ring tone.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2010
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
Nearly everything on television is a guilty pleasure, a concept useful to viewers who need to explain away their addictions to certain shows, especially the trashiest stuff.
From Washington Post
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 Robinson, Harry Perry
