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

The Matt Gaetz Show is many things: chintzy, low-rent, reactionary.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2025

We take a deep breath as the chintzy, 90-minute holiday sewage piles onto us, ready to watch it all and come out victorious on the other side.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024

But a lot of the contemporary work here is chintzy or schematic, and in going for quantity over quality, the show’s second half feels a bit like … a tide crashing over you.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Around his neck, he wore a necklace with a chintzy pewter dragon gripping a purple crystal ball—a memento from some Renaissance festival.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner