chintzy

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mitätön Of or decorated with chintz.
(quote-book)|year=1995|isbn=978-0-333-63773-9|passage=This time she showed him into her living room instead of the kitchen. It was a little chintzier than it would have been if she'd actually owned the place, but he seemed to like it and sank comfortably into a loose-covered, old-fashioned, square-cornered sofa.
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(quote-book)|year=2014|page=11|isbn=978-1-939529-90-9|passage=My parents had a dormer and two impossibly small twin beds with the world's chintziest chest between them.
(quote-book)|year=2014|page=36|isbn=978-1-4094-6197-5|passage=Well—there always were for instance chintzy flower patterns for curtains and imitation Turkey or Persian rugs. They have none of that gate-crashing quality. They keep in their place as a quiet accompaniment to your lives. I don't think anybody has ever really got tired of them. Only of course they are not very lively either. And while you certainly don't want the jazzy sort of liveliness every day—I said that before—you may want something else which the chintzy curtains or the Oriental rug don't give you.
puhekieltä tastelessly Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
(quote-journal)|date=10 September 1971|volume=71|issue=11|page=55|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55|oclc=924494186|passage=Now even w:Fred Silverman|Fred Silverman was grim. "It looks chintzy," he said, "even with all the money we're spending."
(quote-book)|year=2015|page=142|isbn=978-1-4422-5459-6|passage=When the proliferation of turkeys in the theaters began to sap her energy (..), and there are only so many observations to be made about how easily the young audiences are tumbling for chintzier and chintzier pictures, she searches for a new style: brisker, more shorthand.
puhekieltä Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.
(quote-book) Think of a time when you were being a bit more chintzy with your partner than you needed to be. What was the result and was it worth it?
(quote-book)|date=11 February 2011|page=110|isbn=978-1-4634-1630-0|passage="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."