How to Use chintzy in a Sentence

chintzy

adjective
  • The boss is chintzy about raises.
  • The chintzy couches of centuries past went straight out the door.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Think of Succession, but in the guise of a chintzy, 90-minute horror movie.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Too bad the shift-knob casing felt chintzy and the plastic panels below the belt were shoddy.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Only problem is the price — $65 is a whole lot of money for a piece of paper in a chintzy wooden frame.
    Chris Kohler, WIRED, 18 June 2010
  • Some faux fur pillows may have a tendency to look cheap and chintzy, but this one looks anything but.
    Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Maximalism is back, and chintz is no longer, well, chintzy.
    Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor, 6 Oct. 2019
  • On Broadway, under what looks like a thousand lights, in front of a crowd impatient to cheer, this makes him a chintzy Big Bad Wolf.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The print seats on the family room's corduroy sofa aren't just my typical chintzy thing — the clients have pugs who hop up there.
    Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2013
  • Lori Graham is not chintzy by nature, but the designer hates to see clients waste money.
    Gregory Cerio, ELLE Decor, 26 June 2009
  • For one, the chintzy plastic in the headband has been replaced with sturdy anodized aluminum.
    Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The centerpiece of her home’s library is a chintzy ottoman with a pink, cream and green print replete with a ruffle along the bottom.
    New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Large plastic panels below the arm rests on the doors feel chintzy, as do the slide-out cup holders and storage area below the center console.
    Steven Ewing, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some complain soccer is a chintzy distraction from the sophistry of our ruling classes.
    Sean Williams, The New Republic, 10 July 2018
  • The quality of the voice acting and animation helps, too, even if the story itself is a rather chintzy affair.
    Mark Walton, Ars Technica, 21 June 2017
  • The idea is truly one-of-a-kind pieces alongside its own in-house brand, making lingerie special and bespoke, not chintzy and disposable.
    Hannah Morrill, Marie Claire, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Then there’s the chintzy poster, all smiling movie-star faces looking in every single direction.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
  • It’s underwritten yet over-stuffed with songs, and the production itself feels chintzy and airless.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The second Aquaman, like the first, is true to itself: a chintzy blast of machismo every bit as disinterested in regime change as its bulky hero is.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Through the power of Rob’s imagination (and some chintzy CGI), those wooden sculptures come to temporary life.
    Nick Schager, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Everybody was a little TV Guide: Check out this terrible rom-com, this chintzy thriller nobody’s been talking about.
    The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Instead, the staging came off as chintzy, with two go-go dancers/backing singers and a trio of musicians supplemented by backing tracks.
    Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • That’s Book Club through and through—a team of talented pro actors playing against scenery that’s too chintzy to ignore, but too shameless to really dislike.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 May 2018
  • The Bruins are no longer a chintzy operation known for handing out below-market contracts, mostly to coaches such as Dorrell and Neuheisel who had ties to the school.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Puff-sleeve and tiered versions lean into a chintzy parlor look, but some of our favorite jacquard florals juxtapose the prim fabric with shorter hemlines and tiny tie-straps.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2022
  • But come fall, anyone who’s ever bought a school supply—even a chintzy, plastic protractor—might feel a stirring of initiative in their sunburned loins.
    Wsj Off Duty Editors, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Picture the living/dining/kitchen area of a chintzy, working-class tract house somewhere in the Central Valley, that vast chunk of inland California where celebrities don't live.
    Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2017
  • British designer Richard Quinn has been designing full-face coverings for quite some time, albeit in more soothing prints, like chintzy florals.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Here were decadent yet chintzy nostalgia pieces with delusions of forward momentum.
    Darren Franich, Vulture, 26 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

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