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Meaning of trashery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Who comes in foreign trashery Of tinkling chain and spur, A walking haberdashery Of feathers, lace, and fur.”
“I took four sketches of the different head-dresses, all equally detestable, which I shall finish and bring to shew you how far superior the natural beauty of our own girls in their simple dresses is to the trashery of the French belles.”
“But it is not altogether funny to visualize our libraries becoming trasheries, our Centers of Learning objects of public ridicule and our occupations irrelevant to the world that is coming to be.”
“So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .”
“. . . this tasteless rightwing trashery . . . .”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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