trashy

[trash-ee]

adjective

trashier, trashiest 

1. of the nature of trash; inferior in quality; rubbishy; useless or worthless.

2. (of a field) strewn with trash, especially the withered vegetation from an earlier crop.

trashy

/ ˈtræʃɪ /

adjective

1. cheap, worthless, or badly made

Other Word Forms

• trashily adverb
• trashiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of trashy¹

First recorded in 1610–20; trash + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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.

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“In the play, it was just a lot trashier.”

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“When a trashy tacky reality tv criminal bulldozes the White House Rose Garden to make a patio-styled food court for himself,” one X user wrote.

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Those nascent days gave us trashy summer television at its absolute finest.

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It would rather binge-watch thousands of hours of trashy TV shows than deal with the dithering crew of space hippies to which it’s been assigned.

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Related Words

• crummy 
• sleazy 
• tawdry