Modifies a noun

• gag: Nowadays, of course, the Comic Relief joke is to use the inclusion of a high profile celebrity as a throwaway gag.

• remark: In the course of oral argument Lord Hoffmann suggested it had been a " throwaway remark " .

• comment: IRC transcripts, with throwaway comments, are preserved forever.

• pop: These five musicians from Sussex have created something of intelligence and worth that begs analysis, and not some throwaway pop.

• society: Tomorrow's adults hold the key to turning around our throwaway society.

• line: Lear's ' let me not be mad ' is no throwaway line.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: One answer from the company members was an almost throwaway 'not a lot ' .

• seemingly: More spirtual numbers, a few seemingly throwaway numbers.

• not: They are not throwaway items that will clutter up landfill sites for generations.

• too: FAT aims high in what it does, but this particular installation is just a bit too throwaway, like film stars.

• apparently: It is a measure of the abiding affection for this apparently throwaway pop group that they are still well remembered nine years on.

• increasingly: Or your old drill, mobile phone or any other electrical product broken or deemed surplus to requirements in our increasingly throwaway society?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The images also seem throwaway, with little attention paid to the traditional qualities of the medium.