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trashy

mod. cheap; obscene; low; (sexually) promiscuous. Cut out the trashy talk, you guys.

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They are a proper band in the Kings Of Leon sense, but trashier. Less country, more scuzzy, proper rock and roll.

Even his trashier offerings such as Species and Dante's Peak are well worth a look.

Had he been born in the late 20th century instead of in the 18th, he would have been regularly vilified in the national tabloid press and trashier magazines.

Puffed up monarchs and black butterflies

It don't get much trashier than Slim Limbs: super lo-fi primitive rock with growled vocals and some organ thrown in for good measure.

Notes from the underground

* Teen movies don't get any trashier or more gleefully deviant than Roger Kumble's adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons for the high school set.

Precious: Mo'Nique plays the ultimate mother from hell. And there's nothing funny about that

The idea is of the kind familiar to us from the headlines of the trashier supermarket tabloids: Martians are beaming down cosmic rays that are genetically transforming human infants into aliens.

Huntington, John, ed.: Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (1937)

Along with the geometric and the political, there are trashier ways to underline your point: Gerry Bibby's After Hours: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 2006, is a bird's nest-cum-sound system made out of a stereo, speakers, plastic bags, pigeon spikes, IKEA furniture, and piles of shredded print advertisements, which holds coins here and there, like a wishing well.

"Door slamming festival": Mehringdamm 72

The culture has grown trashier, the demands of society have become less stringent, the culture of indulgence has grown deeper--and all this has led to a visible cultural decline.

Moral exo-skeletons and endo-skeletons: a key divide in the American body politic

All of these trends have been taking place since the early 1990s--the same period in which American culture was allegedly getting trashier. According to City Journal, the same age group tends to be more tolerant of homosexuality, less judgmental of single parents, and actively engaged in the music, movies, television, and Internet that Shapiro finds so corrupting.

Curb your enthusiasms: moralists left and right want to control your carnal desires

THE return of Footballer's Wives to our screens and it's trashier than ever before

The essentials: hot

The "trashier" the talk show, the more intense are these aspects.

Grindstaff, Laura. The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows

Laurie Osborne, for instance, finds that while a few earlier writers of romance novels frame plots and characters in hermeneutic relation to Shakespeare, the primary function of Shakespearean allusion in later works is to claim higher intellectual status and to elevate these works above the so-called trashier contributions to the genre.

Richard Burt, ed. Shakespeare After Mass Media

Given these constraints, his operas' libretti are even trashier than the usual fare.

Handel Redux - A Mirror of Modern-day Culture

Valentine's day--a bawdy declamation, the trashier the better--this will do to win their love.

The Book of Bachelors

"One of the things I feel all TV film programming misses out on is the love of the trashier end of the spectrum," he says.

Jonathan Ross: Career built out of a passion for the big screen; Can Jonathan Ross fill the BBC film pundit's chair vacated by Barry Norman? His first move has been to change it to a sofa, writes Graham Keal

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