chintzy

Example Sentences

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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

It’s a bit chintzy for the United States of America to accept a used plane from another country for its presidential transport.

From Slate • May 17, 2025

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

“At first, it’s like a prison,” his father added, speaking over the chintzy grupero music that blared from an electronic jukebox.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 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