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chintzy
Alternative clues for the word chintzy
Word definitions for chintzy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or decorated with chintz. 2 Tastelessly showy; cheap, tacky, or gaudy. 3 stingy; excessively reluctant to spend.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Christina's Cafe tends to be a little chintzy with ingredients. ▪ The car has chintzy uncomfortable seats. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At her feet she had a large sack-like bag, made from some kind of chintzy material. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chintzy \chintzy\ adj. resembling chintz or decorated with chintz. of very poor quality. [informal] Syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tatty, tinny, chinchy. stingy; miserly. Syn: cheap.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of very poor quality [syn: bum , cheap , cheesy , crummy , punk , sleazy , tinny ] embarrassingly stingy [syn: cheap , chinchy ] [also: chintziest , chintzier ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, from chintz + -y (2).
Usage examples of chintzy.
Walton never ceased being margin-obsessed or chintzy, in the sense of continuing to pay the lowest possible hourly wages to store workers.
Stone flagged floors, good rugs, heavy supporting beams, inglenook fireplace, exposed old bricks, and masses of sagging sofas and chairs in faded chintzy covers.
Geraldine had always admired how they kept the chintzy, welcoming feel with the deep chairs and sofa.
Or in a dorm room bed with two people instead of one, while Bach played on the chintzy stereo, orchestrating the fugue?
They had gone upstairs to her large, chintzy bedroom where she had introduced him to pleasures he had never imagined existed.
The Button Factory, to see what chintzy curios they might acquire in commemoration of their overnight vacation from the twentieth century.
The man led the way and switched on the lights in a small chintzy lounge.
He opened his eyes and could not place the cream walls and the chintzy furniture.
THE AUTOCRAT moved fast and softly through chintzy prefabs and the continuing scenes of black family life, with its leagues of brothers and stand-offs in the basketball courts, and mothers' shapes behind the insect mesh, calling.
I've even awakened in a chintzy little bedroom with lots of hard morning sun shining in on the installment-plan furniture, showing up cracks in the wallpaper and flaws in complexions.
He glanced at the TV on the chintzy sideboard (bobbing basketballers), he glanced at his watch (the movement limp and stoical), he glanced at me.
The female reproductive system, it seemed, was very chintzy with its eggs, and even with this system pregnancy was usual only once in every two or three years.
The first thing he noticed, besides bad lighting cast by the chintzy Japanese paper lanterns which had been hung from the low ceiling, was a row of emergency lockers behind the homemade pool table.
Its in a different class from the chintzy stuff they palm off on you in sporting goods stores.
The Prime Minister (or perhaps his wife) had a chintzy taste reflected in soft furnishings more suited (Cunningham thought) to a country cottage.