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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  chintzy \chintzy\ adj.
     1. resembling chintz or decorated with chintz.
        [PJC]
  
     2. of very poor quality. [informal]
  
     Syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tatty, tinny,
          chinchy.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. stingy; miserly.
  
     Syn: cheap.
          [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  chintzy
       adj 1: of very poor quality [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy,
               punk, sleazy, tinny]
       2: embarrassingly stingy [syn: cheap, chinchy]
       [also: chintziest, chintzier]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  chintzy
     a.
     1 Of or decorated with chintz.
     2 (lb en figuratively) tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
     a.
     (lb en figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly,
  stingy.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  chintzy
     a.
     1 Of or decorated with chintz.
     2 (lb en figuratively) tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
     a.
     (lb en figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly,
  stingy.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  chintzy
     a.
     1 Of or decorated with chintz.
     2 (lb en figuratively) tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
     a.
     (lb en figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly,
  stingy.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  chintzy
     a.
     1 Of or decorated with chintz.
     2 (lb en figuratively) tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
     a.
     (lb en figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly,
  stingy.

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  chintzy /tʃˈɪntsi/
  potažený barevným kartounem

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  chintzy /tʃˈɪntsi/
   [Am.]  [coll.] billig, kitschig, geschmacklos 
     Synonyms: cheesy, tawdry, tinselly
  
   see: cheesier, tawdrier, cheesiest, tawdriest
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  chintzy /tʃˈɪntsi/
   [Br.] chintzartig , aus Chintz, Chintz… [textil.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  chintzy /tʃˈɪntsi/ 
   [Am.]  [coll.] geizig, knausrig, knauserig, kniepig [Norddt.] , netig [Norddt.] , knorzig  [Schw.]
           Note: Person
     Synonyms: miserly, niggardly, penny-pinching, tight-fisted, close-fisted, hard-fisted, stingy, mingy, mean, penurious
  

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  chintzy /tʃˈɪntsi/
  1. silány
  2. bóvli

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  chintzy /tʃˈɪntsi/
  1. ( ABD), (k.dili.) adi, iyi olmayan.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈtʃɪntsi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "chintzy":
     beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, careless, cheeseparing, chinchy,
     dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, exiguous,
     frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, improper, in bad taste, in rags,
     inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant,
     informal, infrequent, loose, lumpen, meager, messy, miserly, mussy,
     negligent, niggardly, offensive, piddling, poky, poor, ragged,
     raggedy, rare, ruinous, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggly,
     scrimping, scrimpy, seedy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby,
     shoddy, skimping, skimpy, slack, slatternly, slim, slipshod,
     sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, sparse, spotty, sprinkled,
     squalid, stingy, tacky, tasteless, tattered, thin, tight,
     unbecoming, unbeseeming, undignified, unfitting, ungenteel,
     unkempt, unneat, unseemly, unsightly, unsuitable, untasteful,
     untidy, vulgar
  
  

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