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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chintzy
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.
▪ He tucked the chintzy bed cover over his sleeping friend and switched off the light.
▪ Robyn dumped her holdall on to the floor and sank on to one of the chintzy sofas.
▪ So why am I so chintzy with the gold stars?
▪ The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge's.
▪ The hangings were rather chintzy and old-fashioned.
▪ We all live in chintzy little boudoir rooms and we can't hang Rothkos on our walls.
▪ Within, there was an atmosphere of chintzy comfort.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chintzy

chintzy \chintzy\ adj.

  1. resembling chintz or decorated with chintz.

  2. of very poor quality. [informal]

    Syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tatty, tinny, chinchy.

  3. stingy; miserly.

    Syn: cheap.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chintzy

1851, from chintz + -y (2).

Wiktionary
chintzy

a. 1 Of or decorated with chintz. 2 Tastelessly showy; cheap, tacky, or gaudy. 3 stingy; excessively reluctant to spend.

WordNet
chintzy

  1. adj. of very poor quality [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]

  2. embarrassingly stingy [syn: cheap, chinchy]

  3. [also: chintziest, chintzier]

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.