Examples of chintzy in a Sentence
The boss is chintzy about raises.
for the party I want chintzy plates that we can throw away afterward
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Here were decadent yet chintzy nostalgia pieces with delusions of forward momentum.
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Darren Franich, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2025
The Art Deco world of Poirot has long since been concreted over by some ’70s town planners, and the Miss Marple chintzy rural drawing room is not a place that many people frequent.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Soto bought his scratch-off ticket in the $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE SPECTACULAR, and the game has a not-so-chintzy $1 million as its second-tier prize.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
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Darren Franich, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2025
The Art Deco world of Poirot has long since been concreted over by some ’70s town planners, and the Miss Marple chintzy rural drawing room is not a place that many people frequent.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Soto bought his scratch-off ticket in the $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE SPECTACULAR, and the game has a not-so-chintzy $1 million as its second-tier prize.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Chintzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chintzy. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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chintzy
adjective
chintzier; chintziest
chintziness
noun
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