chintzy
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It’s all chintzy and campy, the plundering of low-hanging fruit.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Back then, IBM certainly wouldn’t have hired weird longish-haired geeks like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were working with chintzy little microprocessors that paled in comparison with IBM’s mighty mainframes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
From its opening sequence, where Johnson’s Kerr blasts through a chintzy Egyptian pyramid to enter the ring at an early fight in Brazil, the movie looks fantastic.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
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
And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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