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chintzy /ˈtʃɪn(t)si /adjective (chintzier, chintziest)1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz: a pretty, chintzy fabric...- 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.
- Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
- Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
1.1Brightly colourful but gaudy and tasteless.I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy....- 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.
- 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: a chintzy amateur lens...- But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
- The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
- 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.
2.1Miserly; mean: a chintzy salary increase...- 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.
- Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
- In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.
Derivativeschintzily adverb ...- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
chintziness noun ...- 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.
- There's a sort of chintziness of spirit at work there.
- To me, this smacks of total chintziness, and lack of prioritizing.
RhymesDe Quincey, wincey |