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chintz·y
chInt si
比较级:chintzier或more chintzy
最高级:chintziest或most chintzy
词根:chino
adj.chino 用斜纹棉布做成的
chintz 擦光印花布的
n.chino 斜纹棉布裤;丝光斜纹棉布
chintz 印花棉布(等于chints)
1851年,来自 chintz 和 -y(2)。“装饰或覆盖印花棉布”,尤其是在贬义的扩展意义上,“郊区的,不时尚的,小资产阶级的,廉价的; 卑鄙的,吝啬的” [OED]。
The first known use of chintzy was in 1851
chintzyadjective
decorated with or as if with chintz
not tasteful or stylish
of low quality
stingy
1 A longtime member of the cheeky Collapsable Giraffe company, Mr. Findlay is a veteran theater maker, and so he must have a reason for this chintzy depravity.
2 What can I respond next time she does this that will not leave me looking chintzy or inhospitable?
3 There was no new music to be débuted, nor any theatrical hijinks or chintzy conceptual overlays.
4 She made her mark at the 2006 Berlin Biennale with Tiger Licking Girl's Butt, a parable of sexual compulsion in which a large beast repeatedly does just what the title suggests in a chintzy bedroom.
5 Do Your Thing sounds chintzy, and with Good Luck hoves into view, one is only reminded that, at their peak, orchestral grandeur was just one of Basement Jaxx's many powers.
6 Can an exotic ikat waltz with a chintzy floral?
7 A chintzy tea shop sits next to an internet cafe.
8 The wood trim looks and feels chintzy, the sunshades for the optional panoramic roof aren't power operated, and only the passenger-side second-row seat slides forward to allow third-row passengers in and out—a clear cost-cutting move that compromises convenience.
9 Baffled by the ropey script and chintzy production, audiences stayed away to the tune of $14m – less than a quarter of Superman III’s gross.
10 He did the chintzy electro-surf beat and most of the vocals, flavoring the track with breathy, highly mannered sexcapade lyrics that sound more like nursery rhymes than raps.
11 They juxtapose masculine and feminine elements, such as chintzy floral prints hand-painted by Dickely and strict tailoring; elongated silhouettes are rendered in industrial materials like rubberized cotton and black polyester.
12 The end of “Götterdämmerung” is supposed to depict the end of the world, but Lepage, with all those millions of dollars of technology, could do nothing better than topple some chintzy statues.
13 CC This enjoyably chintzy drama has proved successful in the US, and now finally airs over here.
14 But it ends up with a wan, chintzy soap that can’t compete with reality–either Britain’s or E!’s.
15 The old ways are always being contrasted with present-day American banality, with the encroachment of chintzy commercial culture even into the hinterlands.
16 It looks a little chintzy, to be honest.
17 The dialogue is packed with quippy nonsense that neither matches the chintzy style or manages to be clever enough to elevate it, amounting to little more than a conceptual cop-out that’s unfunny and unbalanced in both gameplay and tone.
18 Bush-era recession left the Walk of Fame a hardscrabble corridor of chintzy souvenir stands, drug bazaars and sex trafficking.
19 Sales figures, if they don't entirely affirm Significant Objects' hypothesis, certainly go some way to show the overlap between the buyers of chintzy detritus and America's micro-fiction enthusiasts.
20 Sure, they’re chintzy plastic.
当然,是用低廉的塑料制成的。
1 华丽而俗气的
2 琐碎的
little light minute petty insignificant potty frivolous trifling petit piddling nugatory peddling picayunish
3 吝啬
mean cheap tight stingy miserly penny-pinching tight-fisted mingy meanly meanness cheeseparing skimp close parsimonious niggardly cheese-paring scungy parsimony pinch pennies careful ungenerous close-fisted narrowfisted small near Scottish illiberal churlish penurious unhandsome hardfisted scrimpy begrudgingly scantily churlishly parsimoniously closeness stinginess churlishness illiberality penny-pinch screw pinch scotch
4 廉价
cheap money-saving cheaply on the cheap budget affordable downmarket bargain inexpensive low-priced threepenny k-mart floor price k mart
5 过于花哨的
6 印花布的
9 小气
mean close cheap tight petty stingy miserly parsimonious penny-pinching niggardly tight-fisted parsimony careful small-minded mingy close-fisted cheeseparing narrow scotch skimpy ungenerous pimping niggard unhandsome skimpingly meanly stingily pikerism meanness smallness
11 琐碎
little light minute petty insignificant potty frivolous trifling petit piddling nugatory peddling picayunish pettiness trivialize
12 卑劣的
low-lived mean small poor sorry insect nasty miserable petty reptile naughty vile beggar shabby lowering wretched unworthy scaly villainous sleazy reptilian scoundrel snide mean-spirited squalid mucky ornery scummy mangy wormy verminous currish snifty
13 吝啬的
chary hungry stingy mean close near cheap tight illiberal parsimonious penny-pinching ungenerous penurious niggardly tight-fisted beggarly mingy ungiving cheese-paring close-fisted miserly scungy careful narrowfisted small Scottish churlish unhandsome cheeseparing hardfisted scrimpy scotch
14 艳俗的
15 庸俗
bourgeois inelegant bromidic artsy-craftsy tawdrily vulgarity philistinism tawdriness stodginess vulgarness banalize
16 小气的
stingy mean close near tight petty penny-pinching penurious niggardly tight-fisted mingy ungiving cheap miserly parsimonious careful small-minded close-fisted narrow scotch skimpy ungenerous pimping niggard unhandsome cheeseparing
18 卑劣
low-lived mean small poor sorry insect nasty miserable petty reptile naughty vile beggar shabby lowering wretched unworthy scaly villainous sleazy reptilian scoundrel snide mean-spirited squalid mucky ornery scummy mangy wormy verminous currish snifty low miserably meanly squalidity villainy squalor meanness turpitude pettiness abjection poorness vilify
19 廉价的
cheap money-saving budget affordable downmarket inexpensive low-priced threepenny k-mart k mart
20 低劣的
under bad common cheap evil hedge scrub skinny punk infamous inferior shabby sleazy duff scrubby ornery tatty third-rate scabbed tin-pot
22 低劣
under bad common cheap evil hedge scrub skinny punk infamous inferior shabby sleazy duff scrubby ornery tatty third-rate scabbed tin-pot poverty
23 俗气的