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Definition of chintzy in English: chintzyadjectivechintzier, chintziest ˈtʃɪn(t)siˈtʃɪn(t)si 1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz. Example sentencesExamples - Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable.
- Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
- Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury.
- And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings.
- Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
- Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones.
- ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
- Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse.
- Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
- Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.
- For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure.
- To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face.
- I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager.
- Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor.
- To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
- For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
- It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
- Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.
- But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
- Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
- 1.1 Brightly colourful but gaudy and tasteless.
Example sentencesExamples - I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
- Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily.
- It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
- This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
- Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy.
- Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug.
- One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
- I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.
- On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake.
- So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
- The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
- The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid.
- A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
- Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East.
- The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies.
2North American informal Cheap and of poor quality. Example sentencesExamples - Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand.
- The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
- And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
- I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking.
- Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's.
- The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
- But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out.
- The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together.
- She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
- Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
- The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment.
- But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
- But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties.
- We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC.
- The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork.
- The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy.
- In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent.
- Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy.
- On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned.
- The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy.
Synonyms flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy - 2.1 Miserly; mean.
a chintzy salary increase Example sentencesExamples - Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
- Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
- As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area.
- In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.
Derivatives adverb I don't think anyone was expecting Meredith, Derek, Burke, Cristina, Izzie, George, bartender Joe, and the Chief to face off in a festive Turkey Bowl or anything as chintzily holiday-themed as that. Example sentencesExamples - I find it easy to believe that the sisters’ small French town looked something like this, and that the houses they worked in felt this chintzily dull and gray.
- It actually becomes a truly chilling, beyond-twisted junk film that never ceases to amaze in its chintzily charming, visually inspired, and honestly whorish way.
- Rooms are spacey and plushly - if slightly chintzily - decorated and the main part of the Hall includes a swimming pool and spa, drawing room, dining room, bar, ¿ la carte restaurant and nightclub.
- Even an American is included: Winslow Homer, rather chintzily represented by two wood engravings from Harper's Weekly: one depicting a Parisian ball; the other, students copying paintings at the Louvre.
noun There's a sort of chintziness of spirit at work there. Example sentencesExamples - Her paintings revel in the gaudy chintziness of American commercial spaces, yet through her uncertain and reverently childlike rendering she makes such scenes seem appealing.
- The menu design is loud, colorful, and kind of slapped together, but goes along with the whole live-to-tape chintziness of the sitcom itself.
- To me, this smacks of total chintziness, and lack of prioritizing.
- Welles' performance as the towering, regal Arkadin - complete with a wobbly Russian accent - is just one grandiose element that obscures the relative chintziness of the production.
Definition of chintzy in US English: chintzyadjectiveˈCHin(t)sēˈtʃɪn(t)si 1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz. brighten the room with fresh paint and chintzy fabrics Example sentencesExamples - I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager.
- To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face.
- Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury.
- Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.
- ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
- Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
- Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse.
- For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
- Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor.
- And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings.
- Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
- Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.
- It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
- For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure.
- But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
- Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
- Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
- To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
- Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones.
- Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable.
- 1.1 Brightly colorful but gaudy and tasteless.
Example sentencesExamples - Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy.
- On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake.
- I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.
- A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
- One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
- Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East.
- So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
- The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
- It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
- The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies.
- The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid.
- I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
- Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug.
- Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily.
- This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
2North American informal Cheap and of poor quality. Example sentencesExamples - And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
- The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
- But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out.
- But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
- But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties.
- In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent.
- The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork.
- The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
- We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC.
- Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
- Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand.
- The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment.
- Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's.
- The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy.
- She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
- The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together.
- Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy.
- I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking.
- The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy.
- On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned.
Synonyms flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy - 2.1 Miserly.
a chintzy salary increase Example sentencesExamples - Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
- As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area.
- In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.
- Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
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