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Recent Examples of chintzy New in Town: Westhampton Beach’s Sunset Theater opened after a renovation, and the chintzy Seabreeze Motel has been reborn as the sleek Three Ducks. Stephanie Krikorian, Curbed, 23 June 2025 While the set seems a bit on the chintzy side, scenic designer Beowulf Boritt does his usual stellar work, assisted immensely by Ken Billington’s full-of-pizzazz lighting design. Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025 Here were decadent yet chintzy nostalgia pieces with delusions of forward momentum. Darren Franich, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2025 Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office. Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chintzy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chintzy
Adjective
  • But cattle producers say importing cheaper beef abroad could threaten domestic agriculture in the long run.
    Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Gripen fighters have the reputation of being relatively cheap and easy to maintain and arm, and able to operate in austere conditions – using roads or even dirt roads for runways.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This careful tiptoeing is probably because the scissor artwork was never meant to be sold at a wider scale.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Use this simple hack to pinpoint the source of the problem and discover inexpensive solutions to save money on your energy bill costs.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Combining industry leading net margins, free cash flow generation and growth, GILD looks inexpensive compared to its peers at only 14x forward earnings.
    Tony Zhang, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • How selfish of Fred Warner, goodness gracious.
    Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This is plainly and simply a selfish decision on his part.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The state alleged that Amazon doesn’t go far enough to find reasonable accommodations for employees upon request and fails to consider whether a different accommodation or work location would be a match for an employee who is pregnant or has a disability.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Wisconsin law enforcement agencies may use a drone to gather evidence or other information in a criminal investigation from or at a place or location where an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy if a search warrant is obtained.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Depp will play the titular role of Ebenezer Scrooge, a misanthropic and miserly businessman in 19th century London who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in an effort to save himself from an afterlife of torment.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But if raising the minimum wage to $25 an hour would actually help all workers, why be so miserly about it?
    Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Better yet, the style is surprisingly affordable.
    Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Its 135 rooms are both ambitiously designed and fairly affordable, sometimes at under $230 per night.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • At least with Derrick, the shallowness seems intentional, if ungenerous.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
  • But, even though there was nothing the slightest bit ungracious or ungenerous about her performance, it was felt more like the audience being asked to come to her.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Chintzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chintzy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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