Example sentences for: trashy

How can you use “trashy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An article describes the calculated creation of a trashy hardcover thriller.

  • In "Flytrap's Trashy Books," David Plotz says William Bennett is guilty of false modesty.

  • The thing about growing up the son of two New York intellectuals is that reading trashy fiction somehow seems worse--more of a "transgressive act," as some of my academic colleagues would put it--than many other minor crimes and misdemeanors (even more than using the word "hopefully" incorrectly).

  • By sidestepping obvious clichés (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort "to make a sensitive and tasteful show about a trashy subject," says Newsday 's Linda Winer, the production achieves only "banality."

  • As we grew older we came to realize that cockamamie was merely a child's distortion of decalcomania . Later, cockamamie came to mean `cheap, sleazy, gaudy, trashy, junky'--but never “mixed-up, ridiculous.”


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