Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or decorated with chintz.
- adj. Gaudy; trashy: chintzy merchandise.
- adj. Stingy; miserly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of or decorated with chintz.
- adj. tastelessly showy; cheap, tacky, or gaudy
- adj. Stingy; excessively reluctant to spend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. resembling chintz or decorated with chintz.
- adj. of very poor quality.
- adj. stingy; miserly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. embarrassingly stingy
- adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
Etymologies
Examples
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... etc. I don't know what is comprised under the term chintzy, but it appeared to be a comprehensive one, for the nobleman descanted on the merits of the following patterns among others: --
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Yang Jie built HanHan World through social marketing HanHan's World sells what one might call chintzy Iphone covers.
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September 8, 2009 2: 46 PM bojack, really, 'chintzy', come on, these babies must have set us back a mint ..... + they are capturing the leafs for Randolfo's bio-fuel ....
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Fans assumed that the show must have been filmed with some kind of chintzy '50s color process, doomed to quick and smudgy fading, but Eureka!
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Euro’s not to be labelled chintzy, noted that through their punitive tax rates, they furnish the safety hammock for their poor.
Think Progress » House Conservatives Push Fringe Abortion Measure Instead Of Vital Budget Bills
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Righteous Kill is the kind of chintzy genre flick that would go direct-to-DVD if it starred, say, Chuck Norris and James Brolin, instead of a pair of beloved Oscar winners.
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If Dreamworks, with its decent-enough-for-kids entertainment and over-reliance on references to popular culture, is doomed to exist in the shadow of Pixar's monumentally awesome work, then Hanna-Barbera was a kind of chintzy alternative to Warner Brothers 'Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies.
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What a great game (and not just because the Avs pulled out a "chintzy" win, as Ryan Miller called it).
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But seriously, the whole trailer works way too hard to convince me it’s a "gritty," "edgy" drama, when I can’t shake the feeling Righteous Kill is the kind of chintzy genre flick that would go direct-to-DVD if it starred, say, Chuck Norris and James Brolin, instead of a pair of beloved Oscar winners.
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At the very least, I think it is "without sensitivity" to give a gift that is chintzy, that the donor already has, or that cannot be used as anything other than a coaster for a nice hot toddy.
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