[syn: cheap, chinchy, chintzy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
chintzy
adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap,
cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
2: embarrassingly stingy [syn: cheap, chinchy, chintzy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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