trashification

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English

Etymology

From trash +‎ -ification.

Noun

trashification (countable and uncountable, plural trashifications)

  1. The act of trashifying; the act of turning something into trash.
    • c. 1940, F Scott Fitzgerald, “Selected Fitzgerald Working Notes”, in The Love of the Last Tycoon, New York, N.Y. : Scribner, →ISBN, page 150:
      [] with the growing complication of technique and the exclusiveness it created and finally with the grand consolidation and trashification whose finest flower was block booking []
    • 1996 November 4, David Gelernter, “Less Surfing, More Learning”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 2, number 8, New York, N.Y.: News America Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
      The Doles, Bennetts, and Borks condemn the trashification of popular culture, but vulgarity is the consequence of ignorance, never mind Hollywood.
    • 1999, James H Boren, How to be a Sincere Phoney: A Handbook for Politicians and Bureaucrats, Tahlequah, OK, Delaplane, VA: Birdcage Publications; EPM Custom Books, →ISBN, page 78:
      While many political trashifiers begin to believe their own trashifications, bloatators rarely do. Bloatating a position paper involves puffery similar to trashifications but it is oriented toward stroking the prejudices []
    • 2023 April 27, James Poniewozik, “Jerry Springer Was TV's Biggest Populist (Give or Take a President)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-29:
      Springer didn't invent the trashification of TV and pop culture. His show was modeled on earlier talk shows that dipped the occasional toe in the mud, like Phil Donahue's, and its ascent came alongside the likes of Howard Stern.