Definition of chintzy in English:

chintzy

adjectivechintzier, chintziest ˈtʃɪn(t)siˈtʃɪn(t)si

1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz.
轧光彩色印花棉布的；似轧光彩色印花棉布的；饰以轧光彩色印花棉布的
a pretty, chintzy fabric
漂亮的轧光印花棉布织物。
Example sentencesExamples
- Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable.
- Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
- Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury.
- And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings.
- Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
- Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones.
- ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
- Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse.
- Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
- Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.
- For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure.
- To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face.
- I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager.
- Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor.
- To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
- For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
- It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
- Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.
- But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
- Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
1. 1.1 Brightly colourful but gaudy and tasteless.
  亮丽过头的，艳俗的
  Example sentencesExamples
  I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
  Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily.
  It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
  This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
  Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy.
  Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug.
  One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
  I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.
  On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake.
  So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
  The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
  The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid.
  A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
  Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East.
  The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies.
2North American informal Cheap and of poor quality.
〈北美，非正式〉便宜且劣质的
a chintzy amateur lens
Example sentencesExamples
- Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand.
- The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
- And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
- I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking.
- Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's.
- The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
- But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out.
- The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together.
- She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
- Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
- The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment.
- But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
- But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties.
- We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC.
- The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork.
- The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy.
- In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent.
- Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy.
- On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned.
- The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy.
Synonyms
flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy
1. 2.1 Miserly; mean.
  吝啬的，小气的
  a chintzy salary increase
  薪金微涨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
  Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
  As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area.
  In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.

Derivatives

chintzily

adverb

I don't think anyone was expecting Meredith, Derek, Burke, Cristina, Izzie, George, bartender Joe, and the Chief to face off in a festive Turkey Bowl or anything as chintzily holiday-themed as that.
Example sentencesExamples
- I find it easy to believe that the sisters’ small French town looked something like this, and that the houses they worked in felt this chintzily dull and gray.
- It actually becomes a truly chilling, beyond-twisted junk film that never ceases to amaze in its chintzily charming, visually inspired, and honestly whorish way.
- Rooms are spacey and plushly - if slightly chintzily - decorated and the main part of the Hall includes a swimming pool and spa, drawing room, dining room, bar, ¿ la carte restaurant and nightclub.
- Even an American is included: Winslow Homer, rather chintzily represented by two wood engravings from Harper's Weekly: one depicting a Parisian ball; the other, students copying paintings at the Louvre.

chintziness

noun

There's a sort of chintziness of spirit at work there.
Example sentencesExamples
- Her paintings revel in the gaudy chintziness of American commercial spaces, yet through her uncertain and reverently childlike rendering she makes such scenes seem appealing.
- The menu design is loud, colorful, and kind of slapped together, but goes along with the whole live-to-tape chintziness of the sitcom itself.
- To me, this smacks of total chintziness, and lack of prioritizing.
- Welles' performance as the towering, regal Arkadin - complete with a wobbly Russian accent - is just one grandiose element that obscures the relative chintziness of the production.

Rhymes

De Quincey, wincey

Definition of chintzy in US English:

chintzy

adjectiveˈCHin(t)sēˈtʃɪn(t)si

1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz.
轧光彩色印花棉布的；似轧光彩色印花棉布的；饰以轧光彩色印花棉布的
brighten the room with fresh paint and chintzy fabrics
Example sentencesExamples
- I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager.
- To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face.
- Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury.
- Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.
- ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
- Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
- Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse.
- For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
- Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor.
- And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings.
- Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
- Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.
- It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
- For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure.
- But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
- Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
- Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
- To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
- Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones.
- Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable.
1. 1.1 Brightly colorful but gaudy and tasteless.
  亮丽过头的，艳俗的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy.
  On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake.
  I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.
  A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
  One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
  Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East.
  So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
  The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
  It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
  The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies.
  The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid.
  I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
  Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug.
  Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily.
  This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
2North American informal Cheap and of poor quality.
〈北美，非正式〉便宜且劣质的
Example sentencesExamples
- And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
- The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
- But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out.
- But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
- But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties.
- In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent.
- The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork.
- The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
- We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC.
- Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
- Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand.
- The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment.
- Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's.
- The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy.
- She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
- The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together.
- Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy.
- I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking.
- The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy.
- On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned.
Synonyms
flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy
1. 2.1 Miserly.
  吝啬的，小气的
  a chintzy salary increase
  薪金微涨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
  As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area.
  In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.
  Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.

词汇	chintzy
释义	Definition of chintzy in English: chintzy adjectivechintzier, chintziest ˈtʃɪn(t)siˈtʃɪn(t)si 1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz. 轧光彩色印花棉布的；似轧光彩色印花棉布的；饰以轧光彩色印花棉布的 a pretty, chintzy fabric 漂亮的轧光印花棉布织物。 Example sentencesExamples Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable. Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms. Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury. And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings. Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals. Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones. ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister. Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse. Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable. Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough. For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure. To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face. I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager. Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor. To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble. For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers. It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson. Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware. But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual? Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom. 1.1 Brightly colourful but gaudy and tasteless. 亮丽过头的，艳俗的 Example sentencesExamples I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing. Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily. It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’ This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s. Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy. Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug. One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia. I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy. On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake. So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture. The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun? The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid. A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear. Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East. The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies. 2North American informal Cheap and of poor quality. 〈北美，非正式〉便宜且劣质的 a chintzy amateur lens Example sentencesExamples Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand. The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie. And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs. I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking. Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's. The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time. But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out. The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together. She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door. Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market. The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment. But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble. But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties. We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC. The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork. The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy. In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent. Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy. On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned. The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy. Synonyms flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy 2.1 Miserly; mean. 吝啬的，小气的 a chintzy salary increase 薪金微涨。 Example sentencesExamples Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion. Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents. As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area. In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much. Derivatives chintzily adverb I don't think anyone was expecting Meredith, Derek, Burke, Cristina, Izzie, George, bartender Joe, and the Chief to face off in a festive Turkey Bowl or anything as chintzily holiday-themed as that. Example sentencesExamples I find it easy to believe that the sisters’ small French town looked something like this, and that the houses they worked in felt this chintzily dull and gray. It actually becomes a truly chilling, beyond-twisted junk film that never ceases to amaze in its chintzily charming, visually inspired, and honestly whorish way. Rooms are spacey and plushly - if slightly chintzily - decorated and the main part of the Hall includes a swimming pool and spa, drawing room, dining room, bar, ¿ la carte restaurant and nightclub. Even an American is included: Winslow Homer, rather chintzily represented by two wood engravings from Harper's Weekly: one depicting a Parisian ball; the other, students copying paintings at the Louvre. chintziness noun There's a sort of chintziness of spirit at work there. Example sentencesExamples Her paintings revel in the gaudy chintziness of American commercial spaces, yet through her uncertain and reverently childlike rendering she makes such scenes seem appealing. The menu design is loud, colorful, and kind of slapped together, but goes along with the whole live-to-tape chintziness of the sitcom itself. To me, this smacks of total chintziness, and lack of prioritizing. Welles' performance as the towering, regal Arkadin - complete with a wobbly Russian accent - is just one grandiose element that obscures the relative chintziness of the production. Rhymes De Quincey, wincey Definition of chintzy in US English: chintzy adjectiveˈCHin(t)sēˈtʃɪn(t)si 1British Of, like, or decorated with chintz. 轧光彩色印花棉布的；似轧光彩色印花棉布的；饰以轧光彩色印花棉布的 brighten the room with fresh paint and chintzy fabrics Example sentencesExamples I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager. To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face. Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury. Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough. ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister. Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms. Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse. For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers. Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor. And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings. Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable. Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware. It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson. For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure. But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual? Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals. Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom. To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble. Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones. Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable. 1.1 Brightly colorful but gaudy and tasteless. 亮丽过头的，艳俗的 Example sentencesExamples Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy. On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake. I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy. A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear. One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia. Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East. So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture. The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun? It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’ The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies. The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid. I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing. Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug. Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily. This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s. 2North American informal Cheap and of poor quality. 〈北美，非正式〉便宜且劣质的 Example sentencesExamples And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs. The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie. But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out. But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble. But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties. In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent. The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork. The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time. We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC. Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market. Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand. The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment. Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's. The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy. She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door. The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together. Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy. I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking. The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy. On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned. Synonyms flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy 2.1 Miserly. 吝啬的，小气的 a chintzy salary increase 薪金微涨。 Example sentencesExamples Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents. As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area. In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much. Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
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