1
as in inappropriate
marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste
cheesy plastic knickknacks lined the fireplace mantel
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2
as in cheap
of low quality
a cheesy watch that he bought from a sidewalk vendor preying on tourists
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Recent Examples of cheesy
On Tuesday, June 10, the fast food giant announced its latest partnership with Cheez-It to bring together two flavors into one cheesy, portable snack: Cheez-It x Wendy's Baconator crackers.
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Moná Thomas, People.com, 10 June 2025
Dan dan noodles were pushed off the menu in favor of the new cheesy tortilla dish.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The aged white cheddar brings a more deep cheesy flavor, and the texture is perfectly crispy yet airy.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
Inspired by one of our favorite side dishes, these cheesy, buttery onions are a tasty way to raise your burger game.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 7 June 2025
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Moná Thomas, People.com, 10 June 2025
Dan dan noodles were pushed off the menu in favor of the new cheesy tortilla dish.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The aged white cheddar brings a more deep cheesy flavor, and the texture is perfectly crispy yet airy.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
Inspired by one of our favorite side dishes, these cheesy, buttery onions are a tasty way to raise your burger game.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheesy
Adjective
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The banning of a Chicago White Sox fan from Rate Field for inappropriate heckling of Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte was a good first step, writes Paul Sullivan.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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Still, Hinge, as part of Match Group, is using AI for coaching features that help users improve their profile, choose better photos, and filter inappropriate messages before they’re sent.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Introductory pricing: Spectrum’s most affordable plan is much cheaper than AT&T's, at$30 a month compared to AT&T’s $55 a month for 100 and 300 Mbps download speeds,respectively.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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These Golden Hour Savings deals bring these loafers’ price tag down to as low as $52, which is much cheaper than most leather (or vegan leather) loafers.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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What could possibly go wrong on such a slippery slope, where nothing remains sacred, tradition is going extinct and everything left is tacky and transactional?—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
26 June 2025
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With drinks in hand and dogs underfoot, guests can wander through the studios, which remain open for the occasion, canvases still tacky with wet paint.—
Alessandra Schade,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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Rarely great, and consistently cringey in that NHL way we’re used to by now, but rarely terrible.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Even the ones that aren’t strictly evil in the biblical sense are often prone to doing terrible things.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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This is due to the fact that research shows that distilled water, which is what our devices produce before mineralization, may be unsuitable for prolonged consumption.—
Joe Salas
June 09,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
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The family-friend label came a cropper after it was slapped with a multi-million-dollar copyright lawsuit by Disney, Warner Bros. and other major Hollywood studios for making unauthorized cuts – of scenes deemed unsuitable for family viewing by the brothers – to their movies and series.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The key drivers are BGE’s soaring spending and profits and poor management by PJM Interconnection, the private entity that operates our electric grid.—
Emily Scarr,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2025
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Despite having a poor 2024 season that saw the Pirates remove Bednar from the closer role, the right-hander is back to his dominant form.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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The series smartly jettisons (most) of the dead weight that so often drags down stories in this mode, instead leaning into the pleasantly trashy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
19 June 2025
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An ambitious group that references raucous daytime TV talk programs from the likes of Maury Povich and Jerry Springer, for example, tries to wrestle with their trashy exploitation of identity issues as entertainment — DNA paternity tests and all.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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Told that Indigenous people were evolutionarily inferior to white Europeans and Americans, visitors accepted the idea that colonialist progress would soon condemn these groups to extinction.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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The Pacers are just way more inferior and the Thunder got stagnant all of a sudden.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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“Cheesy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheesy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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