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chintzy

[chint-see] / ˈtʃɪnt si /
ADJECTIVE
cheap-looking
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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

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

But a lot of the contemporary work here is chintzy or schematic, and in going for quantity over quality, the show’s second half feels a bit like … a tide crashing over you.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2023

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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