trashy

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MEGAN FOX has hit out at critics who have dubbed her tattoos "trashy" - and vowed to cover herself in body art to spite them.

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  1. adjective Resembling or containing trash; cheap or worthless: trashy merchandise.
  2. adjective In very poor taste or of very poor quality: "There was a special pathos ... within ... her trashy tales” (James Wolcott).

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  • The thing that annoys me most about this bra flashing is that whereas showing one's G-string above one's waistband is generally seen as a bit trashy, as probably even the G-string flashers would happily agree, bra flashing is seen as kind of fashionable in a Prada-type way, and when I say "type way", I mean, that's who made it fashionable.
  • Was there anything ever so mangy, trashy, as these potted objects? —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • Though PDF is proprietary and Acrobat is trashy, the PDF remains a swank format because it guarantees every reader sees the same document free of font or formatting quirkiness. —  Icrontic
  • Speaking of trashy, there's also Showtime's "Secret Diary of a Callgirl," which, despite (or maybe because of) starring "Dr. Who" alum Billie Piper, seems a bit voyeuristic to watch. —  Valley News valleynews.com Stories
  • Krystal is still trashy, and JR becomes dangerous. —  starked
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