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as in cheap
costing little
for the party I want chintzy plates that we can throw away afterward
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as in careful
giving or sharing as little as possible
her husband can be pretty chintzy when it comes to buying gifts for others
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The dialogue is packed with quippy nonsense that neither matches the chintzy style or manages to be clever enough to elevate it, amounting to little more than a conceptual cop-out that’s unfunny and unbalanced in both gameplay and tone.
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Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
This subcompact feels solidly built, and material quality is mostly commensurate with its price, although the hard, shiny plastic dashtop panel looks chintzy, especially in the top-spec SEL models that go for more than $30,000.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
The old ways are always being contrasted with present-day American banality, with the encroachment of chintzy commercial culture even into the hinterlands.
—Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
The kit includes a moving joystick, three game cartridges that can be inserted into the system or into an '80s-brown storage rack, and other nostalgic touches—even the chintzy wood-grain texture on the front of the console has been lovingly re-created with Lego bricks.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 19 July 2022
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Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
This subcompact feels solidly built, and material quality is mostly commensurate with its price, although the hard, shiny plastic dashtop panel looks chintzy, especially in the top-spec SEL models that go for more than $30,000.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
The old ways are always being contrasted with present-day American banality, with the encroachment of chintzy commercial culture even into the hinterlands.
—Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
The kit includes a moving joystick, three game cartridges that can be inserted into the system or into an '80s-brown storage rack, and other nostalgic touches—even the chintzy wood-grain texture on the front of the console has been lovingly re-created with Lego bricks.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 19 July 2022
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“Chintzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chintzy. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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