no-frills

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no-frills (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.

   He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.

   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.

   • 2015 April 6, Mary Norris, “Spelling Is for Weirdos”, in Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2016, →ISBN, page 16:

     Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.

   • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:

     Other stops retain no-frills brick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.

• See also Thesaurus:bare-bones