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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

Asked about roster construction, Cronin compared his team to the chintzy Cincinnati Reds fighting the cash-infused Dodgers for free agents based on UCLA’s shortfall in NIL dollars preventing it from snagging top transfers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

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

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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