The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word KITSCHY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result KITSCHY
- Trashy equipment finally makes electric toothbrush handy
- Vulgar and pretentious Conservative, wary of clothes to wear?
- Sky, it may be, keeps companion of unsophisticated taste
- Cheap clothes reserved, minimum of cash invested
- Heartlessly whip around school being ostentatious
- Soppy young animal’s timid around callers at first
- Trashy equipment’s placed in front of church? Yes
- Garish skit about Chinese yen
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The straight part
We know that "Vulgar and pretentious/Vulgar and pretentious" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case vulgar and pretentious/vulgar and pretentious = kitschy.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does KITSCHY mean?
KITSCHY adjective- Having the nature of kitsch.