What does trashy mean?
Definitions for trashy
ˈtræʃ itrashy
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Princeton's WordNet
rubbishy, trashyadjective
cheap and inferior; of no value
"rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective
tastelessly showy
"a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Wiktionary
trashyadjective
Like trash; containing much trash
a trashy novel
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Trashyadjective
Worthless; vile; useless.
Etymology: from trash.
A judicious reader will discover in his closet that trashy stuff, whose glittering deceived him in the action. Dryden.
Wikipedia
trashy
Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption.Camp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. The visual style is closely associated with gay culture.Camp art is related to and often confused with kitsch and things with camp appeal may be described as cheesy. In 1909, Oxford English Dictionary defined camp as "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual" behavior, and by the middle of the 1970s, camp was defined by the college edition of Webster's New World Dictionary as "banality, mediocrity, artifice, [and] ostentation ... so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal". The American writer Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".
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trashy
Trashy generally refers to something or someone of poor quality or low standards. It is often used to describe things that are considered cheap, tacky, vulgar, distasteful or inferior. This term can be applied to clothes, books, movies, behaviors and attitudes, or any other aspects that may lack refinement, sophistication, or good judgment. It can also refer to something that lacks value, unclean or unsightly.
Webster Dictionary
Trashy
like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of trashy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of trashy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of trashy in a Sentence
A lot of these athletes are eating this diet for no reason, limiting their intake of foods, and a lot of gluten-free packaged foods are really trashy so it’s actually a step in the wrong direction.
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