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
• 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
• 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
• The production, directed by Marina McClure in the Flea’s shallow downstairs space, looks chintzy and the young cast can’t always handle the tonal variations that the writing demands.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• The Devil and Father Amorth is a somewhat chintzy celebration of that achievement, and an attempt to capture something authentic about its subject.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2018
• Some areas, such as the instrument panel and tablet-style infotainment screen, look like high-quality pieces, but others come off as chintzy: The door-trim panels are spare, hard plastic surfaces abound, and even the gauges look cheap.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2020
• There was no new music to be débuted, nor any theatrical hijinks or chintzy conceptual overlays.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023

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