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cheesy
adjective- of poor quality, inexpensive, shoddy US, 1863
- The driver asked us whether we had had fun. We said not too much, and pretty cheesy. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 63, 1950
- “Then, you mean it’s cheesy...” she said hollowly. “It costs me a dollar a stick and it’s still cheesy...” “that’s about the best word for it.” — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 70, 1958
- Jammed between a grimy-windowed bookstore and a cheesy luncheonette was the marquee of a tiny art theater[.] — Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, p. 22, 1959
- I started up the car and cruised along Ogden Boulevard until I found an open bar, a cheesy, small place called John’s On. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 358, 1961
- “Faith Domergue was an Oscar hopeful when making This Island Earth, one of the most opulently cheesy sci-films ever.” — Ethan Morden, Some Men Are Lookers, p. 111, 1997
- smelly UK, 1889
From the malodorous quality of ripe cheese.
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