No-frills

"No-frills" in a Sentence (7 examples)

No-frills airlines have a bad reputation.

Tom was looking for a no-frills vacation destination.

It provides no-frills accommodation for budget-conscious travellers.

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

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.

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.

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.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.