chintzy
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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
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
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
The promotional video on behalf of this grift was even chintzier than the one he made for the line of steaks he sold at the Sharper Image.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
She doesn’t seem like a person who’d warm to constructive criticism, and I’m betting she’s even chintzier with the severance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2011
There’s a dead spot on the former site of a bounce house, and the detritus of five children suggests, at all times, that we are running the world’s chintziest yard sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
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