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trash·y

(trăsh′ē)

adj. trash·i·er, trash·i·est

1. Resembling or containing trash; cheap or worthless: trashy merchandise.

2. In very poor taste or of very poor quality: "There was a special pathos ... within ... her trashy tales" (James Wolcott).

trash′i·ly adv.

trash′i·ness n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

trashy

(ˈtræʃɪ)

adj, trashier or trashiest

cheap, worthless, or badly made

ˈtrashily adv

ˈtrashiness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

trash•y

(ˈtræʃ i)

adj. i•er, i•est.

of the nature of trash; of inferior quality or worth.

[1610–20]

trash′i•ly, adv.

trash′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	trashy - cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise" rubbishy worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
	2.	trashy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, tawdry, brassy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste

trashy

adjective worthless, cheap, inferior, shabby, flimsy, shoddy, tawdry, tinsel, thrown together, crappy (slang), meretricious, rubbishy, poxy (slang), chickenshit (U.S. slang), catchpenny, cheap-jack (informal), of a sort or of sorts I was reading some trashy romance novel.
excellent, outstanding, first-class, exceptional, first-rate, superlative, A1 or A-one (informal)

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

trashy

adjective

Of decidedly inferior quality:

base, cheap, lousy, miserable, paltry, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy.

Informal: cheesy.

Slang: crummy, schlocky.

Translations

تافِه، لا قيمَة له

bezcenný

værdiløs

einskisverîur

adîdeğersiz

trashy

[ˈtræʃɪ] ADJ → malo, barato

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

trashy

[ˈtræʃi] adj [film, book] → trash inv
a really trashy film → un film vraiment trash

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

trashy

adj (+er) goods → minderwertig, wertlos; play → minderwertig; pop group → billig; place → schäbig; trashy novel → Schundroman m; clothes for teenagers are often trashy → Teenagerkleidung ist oft Schund or billiges Zeug

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

trashy

[ˈtræʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fam) (book, film) → scadente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

trash

(trӕʃ) noun

rubbish. Throw it away! It's just trash.

ˈtrashy adjective

worthless. trashy jewellery/novels/music.

ˈtrashcan noun

(American) a dustbin.

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