| 词汇 | chintzy |
| 释义 | chintzy adjective uk /ˈtʃɪnt.si/ us /ˈtʃɪnt.si/ chintzyadjective (DECORATION)mainly disapproving 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: 用大量印花棉布装饰的 I find their house a bit too chintzy.我发现他们的房子用了太多的印花棉布装饰。 a chintzy rose-patterned sofa The room contains an assortment of gilt-edged pieces of furniture and a chintzy rose-patterned sofa. The decor may be rather chintzy and cheesy, but the hotel is unpretentious, relaxed and informal. You are not likely to see a pub that has this much chintzy decor back in Ireland. Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gopping gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideous hideousness pretty-pretty putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy unpoetic unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity chintzyadjective (CHEAP)US cheap and of low quality: （物品）质次价廉的 The room was full of chintzy Christmas decorations. US not willing to spend money: （人）小气的，吝啬的 Don't be so chintzy - the whole evening will only cost you ten bucks.别这么吝啬了，一晚上只要你10块钱。 He heaped praise on them for running a high-class operation. "They're not chintzy," he said. Some of the CGI special effects come off as chintzy. You can't be chintzy; you can't compromise on the quality of ingredients. Costing little or no money affordable housing budget catchpenny chargeless cheap comp costless dirt cheap economical economically off-peak small change something something for nothingidiom super-cheap supersaver there's no such thing as a free lunchidiom ultra-cheap worthless worthlessly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Mean with money chintzy | American Dictionarychintzy adjective slangus/ˈtʃɪnt·si/ (of things) cheap and not well made, or (of people) not willing to spend money: He never tipped enough – he was too chintzy. Examples of chintzychintzy But in early 2002 he had lost three top players to richer teams and would get no help from his chintzy owner. From TIME It opened in 1944 with penny machines, crane games, and a chintzy museum. From The New Yorker The glossy black rectangle feels a little cheap and chintzy, but there's a surprising amount of cool tech inside. From The Verge Twenty bucks is the ideal price point for a shower gift -- neither chintzy nor extravagant. From Slate Magazine 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. From NPR 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. From NOLA.com 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. From Project Gutenberg The courtroom was a chintzy place bright with spring flowers. From Project Gutenberg It was the confidential hour of the morning in her big chintzy room. From Project Gutenberg 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. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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