Adjective, : a chintzy way to entertain guests. From Dictionary.com.
What a great game (and not just because the Avs pulled out a "chintzy" win, as Ryan Miller called it). From Wordnik.com. [In The Cheap Seats] Reference
Euro’s not to be labelled chintzy, noted that through their punitive tax rates, they furnish the safety hammock for their poor. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » House Conservatives Push Fringe Abortion Measure Instead Of Vital Budget Bills] Reference
Why else would they threaten me over a chintzy carpet?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Besides, it was too chintzy to be the Ruzhiner rabbi's. From Wordnik.com. [Settled] Reference
A fairly chintzy replacement for the kiosks, if you ask us. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Bog's Blog: September 2009 Archives] Reference
"Don't you think something of a chintzy nature would ... etc.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917] Reference
Reacher's was a chintzy cube two floors below Neagley's suite. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
The chintzy plastic aesthetics are definitely not a selling point. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
He shrugged and walked over to one of those chintzy pulldown bars. From Wordnik.com. [Tell No One]
Mostly it was overlong and shockingly chintzy — homophobic, too. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: November 1-7 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
It seemed like a chintzy gift to some sniffing British journalists. From Wordnik.com. [The President's Diplomatic Gifts] Reference
Judging by the chintzy frame, she may have got it at a garage sale. From Wordnik.com. [What I'd Say] Reference
They were in the living-room with its dark oak and chintzy furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
GM/Wieck The regular Corvette's chintzy interior carries over into the ZR1. From Wordnik.com. [Chevrolet Corvette ZR1] Reference
We were a little chintzy on the food, but I hope you will look at it that way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2008] Reference
A chintzy, at times incomprehensible musical made by the z-budget Monogram studio. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: September 20-26 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
The Arab opened a case and removed a thin, chintzy carpet the size of a bath towel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Hey, if you want to be really chintzy, you can always just steal from that bread bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Why Cosi doesn’t want you to eat their bread, Midtown Links, & the end of the week wrap up | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
Sure, it was corny, it was chintzy, and we had this bloated nauseating feeling afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [14 « February « 2009 « Off The Broiler] Reference
A chintzy case with V Cast-handcuffed media, 1. 3-megapixel camera, and a Dark Knight decal?. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
The beaches nearest to Colima tend to be rather overcrowded, dirty, and chintzy on weekends. From Wordnik.com. [Colima, Colima advise Help?] Reference
He is going to win so big in NC that her 210K pick up in PA is going to look chintzy by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Nabs Another Super-Delegate] Reference
Those bonds have much better yields than TIPs, so the insurer doesn't have to be so chintzy with its payouts. From Wordnik.com. [Six Ways Retirees Can Beat Inflation] Reference
"It's odd I should find you here, Mr. Fitzroy," said Mr.. Shaw, settling her rustling skirts on a chintzy chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Honeycutt seemed pulled by invisible hands from the chintzy chair in which he had arranged himself like a bouquet. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
Are all men completely oblivious to how much money women need to shop or am I stuck with a very chintzy banker here?. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
Mr. Waksman hopes to convert the neighboring chintzy Chinese restaurant, Dah Jong, into a swank lounge by next summer. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Perry Cinches His $10.9 Million Deal for Annenberg Penthouse] Reference
Victims end up with 60 pieces of china which one buyer describes as "clunky, chintzy and not even dishwasher-friendly.". From Wordnik.com. [The £3,000 dinner set worth £20] Reference
Or in a dorm room bed with two people instead of one, while Bach played on the chintzy stereo, orchestrating the fugue?. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
It was time to leave 27th Street when servers brought Pam Anderson a bottle of champagne with a chintzy sparkler in it. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion Week: Society and Style] Reference
Basically a glorified clock radio, it has a chintzy, careless interface with speakers that spew tinny, unrefined audio. From Wordnik.com. [Test: Rockin' HD Radios, Handy Digital Audio Recorders, Eco-Friendly Totes] Reference
But they certainly do terrible chintzy amusement parks and the concentric orbits of terrible hotels and restaurants right. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
Half of the screws wouldn't even work with it, so I was forced to use other methods so chintzy that I won't mention them here. From Wordnik.com. [she shed you don't understand what i shed] Reference
On a slant axis, you're inhaling bar sounds, chintzy strips of moonlight, a boy throwing pebbles at a mural behind Joe's Pizza Shop. From Wordnik.com. [Probability] Reference
There's a chintzy plastic bin/organizer behind the seat that makes for a level surface when you fold the seat down, but it takes up space. From Wordnik.com. [Loading up the moving (mini)van] Reference
It looks mad chintzy, compared to the new MEET THE PRESS set, which looks like the TRON remake could break out on that thing at any second. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
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