Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or decorated with chintz.
- adj. Gaudy; trashy: chintzy merchandise.
- adj. Stingy; miserly.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or decorated with chintz.
- adj. tastelessly showy; cheap, tacky, or gaudy
- adj. Stingy; excessively reluctant to spend.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. resembling chintz or decorated with chintz.
- adj. informal of very poor quality.
- adj. stingy; miserly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. embarrassingly stingy
- adj. of very poor quality; flimsy.
Etymologies
- chintz + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“... 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: --”
“Yang Jie built HanHan World through social marketing HanHan's World sells what one might call chintzy Iphone covers.”
“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 ....”
“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!”
“Euro’s not to be labelled chintzy, noted that through their punitive tax rates, they furnish the safety hammock for their poor.”
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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.”
“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.”
“What a great game (and not just because the Avs pulled out a "chintzy" win, as Ryan Miller called it).”
“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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chintzy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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unkind words
unkind words or those refering them.
twit, gibe, blockhead, bonehead, cretin, dullard, imbecile, simpleton, clod, dunce, simp, ignoramus and 39 more...
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ficciones's list
encyclopedic
imbroglio, splendour, brilliance, labyrinth, vast, precipice, ebb and flow, tidal, crevasse, resonate, redolent, prudent and 55 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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Useful
parkour, diegetic, callipygian, dasypygal, hypnagogic, hypnopompic, antejentacular, postprandial, perspicuity, perspicacity, föhn, traceur and 115 more...
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
libertarian, unorthodox, unfinished, sincere, frugal, lanky, introspective, critical, laid-back, taciturn, lexiphilic, kindly and 115 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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the favourites
These are words that I like; either because they sound amazing, mean pretty things, seem particularly suited to their assigned definition, or just have good mouthfeel. The best ones embody some com...
tatterdemalion, alpenglow, dapple, defenestrate, wacky, lissom, lithe, whisper, madcap, magniloquent, whimsy, sallow and 208 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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