chintzy
Example Sentences
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As much as I honor the Sportback’s super-clean aero efficiency of 0.24 Cd, this presentation comes dangerously close to chintzy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Fleischer’s signature style is slick but chintzy, which works here.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
The Matt Gaetz Show is many things: chintzy, low-rent, reactionary.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2025
Berry warns that when companies sell society chintzy techno-frippery disguised as physical or creative convenience, it's actually human physical craft and creative spirit which that company designs into obsolescence.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023
And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.