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Adjective(1) (2) of very poor quality(3) embarrassingly stingy(4) cheap

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(1) u2018Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,u2019 says McAllister.(2) Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy , with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.(3) 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.(4) But these aren't chintzy , rinky-dink novelties.(5) She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.(6) Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.(7) And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.(8) Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy , Sixties decor.(9) Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.(10) 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.(11) The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy , though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.(12) Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.(13) 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.(14) It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.(15) One of the highlights of u2018Facts of Lifeu2019 was u2018Straight lifeu2019, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.(16) 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
Adjective
1. cheap
2. punk


📺 Word Example from TV Shows

I'll have a screwdriver, please.
And don't be chintzy with the screw.

I'll have a screwdriver, please. And don't be CHINTZY with the screw.

The Big Bang Theory Season 3, Episode 12


- He'll have a Shirley Temple.
- And don't be chintzy with the Shirley.

- He'll have a Shirley Temple. - And don't be CHINTZY with the Shirley.

The Big Bang Theory Season 3, Episode 12


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