0 having a lot of traditional decoration, especially using cloth with patterns of flowers; this word is often used when you think this style is ugly or not fashionable: --
2 (of things) cheap and not well made, or (of people) not willing to spend money: --
He never tipped enough – he was too chintzy.
I ran onto a lot of bedroom paper of a quaint chintzy pattern at four cents a roll, or about one-fifth what it would have cost in the regular way.
It was the confidential hour of the morning in her big chintzy room.
The courtroom was a chintzy place bright with spring flowers.
There was the inevitable chintzy living-room, with a permanently unemployed grand-piano, two or three safely second-rate paintings by safely first-rate defunct foreigners.
Then he broke out laughing, saying he just wanted the reporter to see how chintzy the cuff links were -- dull and simple with studs, looking like tin.
Most sonic effects -- distortion, reverb, tape loops, panning, synthesizer and weird instrumentation, the theremin, et al. -- that we associate with "psychedelic music" seem, in retrospect, chintzy embellishment, overlay, distraction.
Twenty bucks is the ideal price point for a shower gift -- neither chintzy nor extravagant.
The glossy black rectangle feels a little cheap and chintzy, but there's a surprising amount of cool tech inside.
