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chintzy

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Adjective
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chintz=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

chintzyadj. 
  •  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.

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, vulgar

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