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trinkety en · ADJ

Etymology

From trinket + -y.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a trinket; gaudy and worthless.
    • Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons. 2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most trinkety Degree=Sup lexicographic
more trinkety Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

cruddy · catchpenny · bastardly · not worth a curse · no-account · draffish · naff · snazzy · scabbed · fucking · crass · good-for-naught · schlocky · gauche · tasteless · shitey · cullionly · zesty · ritzy · not worth a cent · screwy · shit · not worth a dime · bedizened · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · pizazzy · not worth a Continental · not worth a nickel · strawlike · triobolar · two-bit · rubbishy · tacky · untasteful · tripy · flashy · goodless · pimped out · tenth-rate · blown · unbecoming · gussied up · vain · garish · obtrusive · ostentatious · chintzy · draffy · for the birds · corny · trinkety · junky · mouldy · vain · cacky · flossy · garish · gay · too much · worthless · showy · blatant · tinselly · shitty-ass · unvaluable · crapalicious · ineffectual · not worth a farthing · toshy · glaring · campy · tawdry · garbagey · hideous · not worth hell room · chaffy · not worth a whistle · raffish · splendiferous · lousy · florid · gross · kitschy · punk · drecky · not worth salt · rubbishly · crude · pissass · suckworthy · jabberwocky · scummy · worth nothing · wutless · good-for-nothing · mucid · sorry-ass · duffing · valueless · not worth a damn · shand · froufrou · sixpenny · valueless · putid · naughty · cocking · trinkety · nonvaluable · not worth a brass farthing · loud · meretricious · not worth a penny · brash · pretentious · nought · flaunting · blingish · unappreciated · kitsch · invaluable · shitstained · no good / no-good · not worth a plug nickel · dreckish · chichi · whorish · of no value · gaudy · tawdry · not worth a cress