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chintzy, a.|ˈtʃɪntsɪ|
[f. chintz + -y1.]
Decorated or covered with chintz; suggestive of a pattern in chintz. Also in extended use: suburban, unfashionable, petit-bourgeois, cheap; mean, stingy.
1851Geo. Eliot Let. 18 Sept. (1954) I. 362 The effect is chintzy and would be unbecoming. 1902Academy 12 Apr. 379/1 Hunt's rhapsodical interpretation of Tickell's chintzy mythological poem on Kensington Gardens. 1923U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter vi. 135 The drawing-room was chintzy then—white walls and old china and bowls of roses and pink shaded lights. 1941J. H. N. Collier Presenting Moonshine 5 A chintzy woman, possibly of literary tastes, swam forward. 1951G. Greene End of Affair iii. vii. 145 He got up from his chintzy chair and came and sat with me on the chintzy sofa. 1958B. Hamilton Too Much of Water ii. 30 A pleasant white-and-gold chintzy drawing-room. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxx. 154 I'll have to revise my attitude to the chintzy old bastard. |