How To Use Chintzy In A Sentence
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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.
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The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
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One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
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I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
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Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
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`Oh, yes, they cram them in where they can when they do these chintzy conversions.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
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And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
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‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
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But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.
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The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
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Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's.
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And chintz tea towels and oven mitts that are anything but chintzy.
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Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury.
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Luce rues that a middle-class home is crowded—only 700 square feet—and "cluttered with chintzy memorabilia" and heartbreakingly defiant messages on refrigerator magnets.
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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.
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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.
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The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid.
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In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.
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The car has chintzy uncomfortable seats.
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Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily.
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The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy.
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It's a chintzy hat, you can't expect it to last for long.
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We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC.
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Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor.
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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.
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The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies.
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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.
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I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.
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Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
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And he wants you to order whatever you like, so don't hurt his feelings by being chintzy.
LADY BE GOOD
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Mostly it was overlong and shockingly chintzy — homophobic, too.
2009 November : Scrubbles.net
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The word disgusting came to mind, though I suppose it was pretty in that cottage-chintzy-curtain-fabric way.
Mates, Dates: Besties:
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The Prime Minister received him in a comfortable, rather chintzy sitting-room.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
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It's a chintzy hat, you can't expect it to last for long.
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Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
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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.
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It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
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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.
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Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.
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The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork.
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The hangings were rather chintzy and old-fashioned.
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EXAMPLE 2: The hotel's general appearance was hurt by the chintzy furniture used in the lobby.
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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.
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But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties.
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I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking.
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The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge's.
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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.
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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.
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The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
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Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable.
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Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
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Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
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For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure.
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She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
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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.
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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.
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It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
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Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
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But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
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Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
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The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge's.
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It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
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Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy.
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It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
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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.
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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.
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The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy.
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The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together.
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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.
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And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings.
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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.
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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.
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It's a chintzy hat, you can't expect it to last for long.
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But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
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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.
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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.
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For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
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Its foyer was deeply carpeted and bright with chintzy furniture and massive floral arrangements.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy.
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Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tearooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
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Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.
