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

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

The Matt Gaetz Show is many things: chintzy, low-rent, reactionary.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2025

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