trashy
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Cheetah Chrome’s trashy, thrashy playing in Dead Boys wedded the urgency of punk with devotion to older, sleazy rock ‘n’ roll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
“I’d rather have a yard filled with genuine garbage than with trashy lawn ornaments.”
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
“They’re a little trashier than the originals,” he admitted.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019
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
“The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker, and more easily bought.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2018
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
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
Dinners and drinks, backgammon and billiards, the lightest opera, the trashiest novels, the most sensational melodrama are the most elevating of their leisure's activities.
From The "Goldfish" by Arthur Cheney Train
