chintzy
/ˈt͡ʃɪntsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
adj
Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.
Example Sentences
- "This time she showed him into her living room instead of the kitchen. It was a little chintzier than it would have been if she'd actually owned the place, but he seemed to like it and sank comfortably into a loose-covered, old-fashioned, square-cornered sofa."
- "Wanting to get out of the house, he descended toward the large living room with its chintzy curtains and stuffy lamps and pictures. His least favorite room."
- "My parents had a dormer and two impossibly small twin beds with the world's chintziest chest between them."
- "Well—there always were for instance chintzy flower patterns [for curtains] and imitation Turkey or Persian rugs. They have none of that gate-crashing quality[.] They keep in their place as a quiet accompaniment to your lives. I don't think anybody has ever really got tired of them. Only of course they are not very [lively] either. And while you certainly don't want the jazzy sort of [liveliness] every day—I said that before—you may want something else which the chintzy curtains or the Oriental rug don't give you."
- ""Tea!" she said in a tiny voice. / "Wake up! It's nearly five." / Oh! Chintzy, chintzy cheeriness, / Half dead and half alive."
- "Now even [Fred] Silverman was grim. "It looks chintzy," he said, "even with all the money we're spending.""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɪntsi/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃɪntsi/
Inflected Forms
chintzier (comparative)
chintziest (superlative)
more chintzy (comparative)
most chintzy (superlative)