chintzy

How To Use chintzy In A Sentence

• WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here's what we already know we can expect in 2009: Chintzy raises, more layoffs, a weak economy -- and a new president with a stimulus package in his back pocket.
• The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
• One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
• I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
• Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
• `Oh, yes, they cram them in where they can when they do these chintzy conversions. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
• A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
• And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
• ‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
• But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.