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Discover LudwigThe phrase "cheesy by" is not a complete or grammatically correct part of a sentence.
It is possible that the intended phrase was "cheesy buy," which could refer to a purchase of something that is low-quality or unoriginal. However, "cheesy by" does not make sense as a standalone phrase and would require more context to be usable in written English.
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She found it scary and cheesy by turns; I just saw the malignant birds, lined up along the rooftops, waiting to visit my house.
They care more about their work and their mission than they do about their personal branding, which feels trivial and cheesy by comparison.
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Two of this year's most talked-about shows took slyly subversive, innovative films, sheared away the edges and produced cheesy, by-the-numbers works.
Now they're cheesy by-gones from another era, stashed into the nooks of the (barely) surving stores that still sell pop culture ephemera.
The result veers between cheesy, by-numbers, synth-led psychedelic rock, and electronic atonal noise, punctuated by drippings of sitar and a sort of King Arthur-esque medieval narrative.
History will be made by the Lakers and especially by me, possibly by next week in that cheesy arena-by-the-turnpike, which houses a team for which I must admit much affection, in the way you feel for the old mutt who once faithfully brought you your slippers.
The décor, heavy on red velvet with feathered chandeliers, looks like something you'd find on a cheesy Paris-by-night tour.
Having decided to take on this Wagnerian-size life, Mr. Boyle has responded not with the deflating humor and hyperventilated energy of his early work or the emotional insight of his more recent novels but instead with a small, cheesy paint-by-numbers soap opera that manages to be pallid and gratuitously garish at the same time.
There is also a steady onslaught of no doubt deliberately cheesy music by Daniel Bernard Roumain.
The quaintly cheesy thriller by Anthony Horowitz just opened at the SoHo Playhouse.
The Batman movies notoriously went pear-shaped after Joel Schumacher was at the helm in the mid-1990s with flashy effects and cheesy performances by Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze and the once white-hot Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl.
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