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chintzy
CIDE DICTIONARY
chintzy, adj.
- resembling chintz or decorated with chintz. [PJC]
- of very poor quality. [WordNet 1.5]
- stingy; miserly. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chintzy, adj. (chintzier, chintziest)
1 like chintz.
2 gaudy, cheap.
3 characteristic of the d{eacute}cor associated with chintz soft furnishings.
1 like chintz.
2 gaudy, cheap.
3 characteristic of the d{eacute}cor associated with chintz soft furnishings.
Derivative
chintzily adv. chintziness n.
THESAURUS
chintzy
beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, careless, cheeseparing, chinchy, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, exiguous, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, improper, in bad taste, in rags, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, informal, infrequent, loose, lumpen, meager, messy, miserly, mussy, negligent, niggardly, offensive, piddling, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rare, ruinous, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggly, scrimping, scrimpy, seedy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, shoddy, skimping, skimpy, slack, slatternly, slim, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, squalid, stingy, tacky, tasteless, tattered, thin, tight, unbecoming, unbeseeming, undignified, unfitting, ungenteel, unkempt, unneat, unseemly, unsightly, unsuitable, untasteful, untidy, vulgarFor further exploring for "chintzy" in Webster Dictionary Online
