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Synonyms for trashy

Most common

third-rate cheap cheesy sleazy tacky tawdry classless trumpery

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Worthless — like trash; having low quality and a perceived lack of depth, especially of books and films

worthless, cheap, sleazy, low-rent informal, poor, third-rate, cheesy, pathetic, chintzy, shoddy, sad, scummy, despicable, crummy informal, mediocre, wretched, flimsy, contemptible, useless, mean, miserable, scrubby

3. Junky — having or generating a lot of trash

junky, littered, rubbishy, cluttered

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Like trash; having low quality and a perceived lack of depth, especially of books and films.

  2. adj. 2

    Having or generating a lot of trash.

  3. adj. 3

    Indecent or lacking class.

Related words

Word family
trashiness

Example sentences

  • cheap It is cheap, but on the other hand it is not good.
  • cheesy The movie that we watched today was very cheesy.
  • sleazy Tom's a sleazy letch, and he gives Mary the creeps.
  • tacky I don't like boxer shorts very much. They're tacky.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
trashyrising
cheaprising
cheesyrising
sleazyrising
tackyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
sad1
4 letters
mean1, poor1, loud1
5 letters
cheap1, flash1, tacky2, gaudy2, washy2, junky2, tatty2
6 letters
cheesy2, flashy2, flimsy2, sleazy2, shoddy2, crummy2, garish2, scummy, tawdry2, brassy2
7 letters
useless2, scrubby2, chintzy2
8 letters
pathetic3, mediocre4, wretched2, littered2, gimcrack, trumpery, rubbishy
9 letters
miserable4, worthless2, cluttered2, classless2
10 letters
despicable4, scandalous3
12 letters
contemptible4, meretricious

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).

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Français
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