as in spartan
providing only the essentials and nothing fancy or luxurious
a low-cost, no-frills vacation during which we camped out and cooked our own meals
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Recent Examples of no-frills
The departures come as the carrier works to move away from its no-frills image and rebrand itself as a premium airline.
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Aatreyee Dasgupta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
South of Midnight's refreshingly no-frills action-adventure gameplay and budget price ($39.99) combine to form an early 2025 favorite—and an Editors' Choice winner.
—PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Sessums is impressed by the no-frills oak Repose frame.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2025
The departures come as the carrier works to move away from its no-frills image and rebrand itself as a premium airline.
—Aatreyee Dasgupta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
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Aatreyee Dasgupta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
South of Midnight's refreshingly no-frills action-adventure gameplay and budget price ($39.99) combine to form an early 2025 favorite—and an Editors' Choice winner.
—PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Sessums is impressed by the no-frills oak Repose frame.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2025
The departures come as the carrier works to move away from its no-frills image and rebrand itself as a premium airline.
—Aatreyee Dasgupta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for no-frills
Adjective
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The simplest way, Studholme suggests, is to use one group of neutrals or a tone on tone graduation of the same color, such as Pigeon, Blue Gray, Muzzle and Cromarty from Farrow & Ball, for example.—
Ariel Okin,
Vogue,
18 Apr. 2025
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Asked who’d buy these gold cards during an Oval Office meeting with reporters in February, Trump had a simple answer.—
Meehika Barua,
HubSpot,
18 Apr. 2025
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Don’t Miss: The nearby Volcanic Tablelands, named for a cataclysmic volcanic eruption 750,000 years ago, draws rock climbers for its fantastic bouldering and desert rats for the austere landscape and petroglyph sites.—
Jenna Blough,
Outside Online,
8 Apr. 2025
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On or just before March 24, a quartet of Russian helicopters—two Mil Mi-8 transports and two Kamov Ka-52 gunships—landed at an austere base somewhere in Belgorod Oblast in western Russia.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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“No-frills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-frills. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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