chintzy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or decorated with chintz.

   • Wanting to get out of the house, he descended toward the large living room with its chintzy curtains and stuffy lamps and pictures. His least favorite room.
   • My parents had a dormer and two impossibly small twin beds with the world's chintziest chest between them.
2. 2

   Tastelessly showy

   Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.

   • "Tea!" she said in a tiny voice. / "Wake up! It's nearly five." / Oh! Chintzy, chintzy cheeriness, / Half dead and half alive.
   • Now even [Fred] Silverman was grim. "It looks chintzy," he said, "even with all the money we're spending."
   • Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling.
3. 3

   Excessively reluctant to spend

   Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.

   • "But you don't charge a buddy a fee for finding him a job. That's chintzy, man! Chintzy!" / "You won't think it's so chintzy when five bucks multiply each day by the number of heads hauled. We'll split it fifty-fifty."

The neighborhood

• neighborchintz
• neighborchintzware