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Meanings of rubbishy in English

Cheap and inferior; of no value.

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Examples for "trashy"
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And just how damaging were its trashy, consumerist values on the population?
The Irish Times
2
It had seemed so vital before; now it seemed absurd and trashy.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
3
It is knowingly, unabashedly trashy and tells you so at every opportunity.
Wired
4
Then I got interested in grunge, trashy 90s Ibiza anthems and pop.
The Guardian
5
They make it simple and trashy, but there is death behind it.
The Guardian
Usage of rubbishy in English
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She'd rather have it than your rubbishy peppermints, I can tell you.
The Story Girl
2
Some rubbishy fellow may come, and goodness knows who he may be!
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
3
What a set of rubbishy old fobs and dowagers there is here anyway.
The Pagans
4
Take any worthless, rubbishy article you like- apieceof old rag, for example.
Dead Souls
5
They've put a lot of rubbishy locks into this ship, I must say.
Typhoon
6
If she was too fond of her rubbishy children, she couldn't help it.
Peter Pan
7
You needn't have wasted sixpence on a rubbishy book to tell me that.
Eliza
8
Why will he waste his time with a lot of rubbishy Latin authors?
A Mere Accident
9
The Oxford don, Dr Phyllis Starkey, rattled him on Labour's rubbishy home insulation code.
The Guardian
10
She was a rubbishy little creature, and she knew it.
Howards End
11
At this rubbishy speech, the tears, for the first time, came into her eyes.
Jaffery
12
This is the son of rubbishy overstatement I dislike intensely.
The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
13
They might go home and eat their rubbishy dinner themselves!
L'Assommoir
14
Who would make such a noise about a rubbishy veil!
The Sisters — Volume 4
15
The surest recommendation in art circles is getting out a book or giving a rubbishy lecture.
The Pagans
16
That's the most rubbishy thing in the world.
Miss Gibbie Gault
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