trashiness
- a word derived from trashy.
Example Sentences
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The too-tame murder-mystery “Double Life” is a cautionary counter-illustration of something every B-moviemaker should know: that trashiness beats good taste, almost every time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
Something about its spiky sense of kitsch satisfied a savvy audience’s yen for winking trashiness, because once the show began running, the response was electric.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2018
As I wrote in the book “Life the Movie,” American popular culture, which is so often accused of trashiness, wasn’t necessarily trashy because Americans were ignorant or unrefined.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2016
Class now meant the aloofness of Grace Kelly; sass meant the vulnerable trashiness of Marilyn Monroe.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2014
The thick softness of gaslight, with the lovely specks and motes in it, so like natural light, gave illusion to many a scene which is now revealed in all its naked trashiness by electricity.
From The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections by Terry, Ellen
