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chintzy

[chint-see] / ˈtʃɪnt si /
ADJECTIVE
cheap-looking
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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

What he presents in the first half is cringeworthy: a chintzy and cheesy playacting of the chaos, with any discussion of the issues.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

The chintzy chair is nice and roomy, and I don’t resist pulling my legs up into it.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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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