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
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
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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