Example Sentences

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"Still, even taking a cynical view of it, it's trashily entertaining and Crudup is magnetic," he added - an adjective used by several critics to describe the actor's performance.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

“The Harvest” is neither as bloodcurdling as “Henry” nor as trashily entertaining as “Wild Things,” playing more like a macabre fairy tale with a child’s-eye view of adult behavior.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2015

Television is full of true-crime stories, many of them trashily told, but the genre is well served by the one offered on Wednesday night on LMN, “Footsteps in the Snow.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2014

The only thing was that her mother was, thank goodness, still so much prettier, still so assertively, so publicly, so trashily, so ruinously pretty.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel