chintzy

Example Sentences

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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

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