no-frills

alternative no frills

1. idiomaticinformalnot comparableBasic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.

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

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   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.

   2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times

   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.

   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

   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.

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