How To Use Chintzy In A Sentence
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Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
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Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
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But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
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Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
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Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
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It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch.
She Closed Her Eyes
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In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent.
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On the controversial question of the Big Day we both knew exactly what we did not want: no chintzy hotel reception, no long wedding lists or preparations, no drama, and definitely no wedding cake.
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She dropped her keys into a chintzy ceramic elephant that sat on a thrift-shop lacquer table by the front door.
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For Gloucestershire, a county better known for its chintzy hotels, this is a real departure.
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The hangings were rather chintzy and old-fashioned.
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Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
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Far more in the traditional chintzy hotel mould than the Old Pines, the rooms are nonetheless more than comfortable.
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The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
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On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned.
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So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
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The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge's.
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I hope folks demand refunds for those chintzy hats and mugs you're hawking.
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But these aren't chintzy, rinky-dink novelties.
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Chic wineries are springing up in western Loudoun, and Rosenstrauch is hoping to capitalize on what he calls ‘entertainment farming’ - chintzy farmers markets for the city folk from out East.
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EXAMPLE 2: The hotel's general appearance was hurt by the chintzy furniture used in the lobby.
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Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
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Also, as an icon - all matinee hats, blue rinses and chintzy dresses - she helped her increasingly dysfunctional family when the going got tough.
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Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tearooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
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Of course, there are some ‘nevers’: Red roses are too romantic; pink carnations are simply chintzy.
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Its foyer was deeply carpeted and bright with chintzy furniture and massive floral arrangements.
STAGE FRIGHT
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For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
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Today, sitting in a chintzy room of London's Dorchester Hotel, wearing a moody suit and smoking so much you'd think he was being sponsored, Bardem seems on the point of collapse.
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Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones.
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But if the e-tailer goes chintzy or cheap, there will be trouble.
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It's a chintzy hat, you can't expect it to last for long.
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The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge's.
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The audio equipment they all used was pretty good - no chintzy earbud headphones or $40 PC speakers - and varied from studio monitor headphones to pricy home theater equipment.
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And a few people don't like dated or unstylish fireplaces or chintzy furnishings.
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But when I got home and sorted through all the unwanted prizes I'd amassed - things that would look chintzy in a CrackerJack box - a Millie mini-book fell out.
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The cover art looks chintzy and thrown together.
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The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy.
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To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
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On the technical side the production is adequate, but I could have wished for a less chintzy starlit sky effect and canned sound that didn't sound so canned.
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It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
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Yes, the actors are all amateurish and the effects chintzy.
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It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
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The word disgusting came to mind, though I suppose it was pretty in that cottage-chintzy-curtain-fabric way.
Mates, Dates: Besties:
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Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily.
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The car has chintzy uncomfortable seats.
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In the U.S., small usually means chintzy so I didn't expect much.
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The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid.
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Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug.
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To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble.
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Luce rues that a middle-class home is crowded—only 700 square feet—and "cluttered with chintzy memorabilia" and heartbreakingly defiant messages on refrigerator magnets.
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Relaxed, she settles into the chintzy sofa and declares herself unconcerned about tabloid fury.
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And chintz tea towels and oven mitts that are anything but chintzy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here's what we already know we can expect in 2009: Chintzy raises, more layoffs, a weak economy -- and a new president with a stimulus package in his back pocket.
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The rest of the effects look chintzy and cheap, a vast difference from the sprawling look of the first movie.
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But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.
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‘Flax flowers are okay on your chintzy curtains, but not on the police badge,’ says McAllister.
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And they're not exactly paradigms of design: The chintzy plastic casings looked as if they'd been jerry-rigged to accept USB plugs.
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A call to owner Robert afterwards revealed he has plans to revamp the chintzy restaurant area, which I was glad to hear.
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`Oh, yes, they cram them in where they can when they do these chintzy conversions.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Only, the money pledged seems a little chintzy, given the needs, and the precedents.
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I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing.
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One of the highlights of ‘Facts of Life’ was ‘Straight life’, a brilliant take on the soulnessness of chintzy English suburbia.
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The bed's a bit chintzy, but who cares when bathtime promises such fun?
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Through the chintzy lace curtains I watched the father walk past again, with a woman, heard goodbyes and thank you's.
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The quality of the components is super, although with some chintzy artwork.
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Inside, the restaurant is still cosy and chintzy, with fresh flowers and gleaming silverware.
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I filled in a couple of forms before being taken into a plush, chintzy room where I was seen by Josephine, a nurse and the deputy clinic manager.
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It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson.
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To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face.
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Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom.
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It's a chintzy hat, you can't expect it to last for long.
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This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
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The Prime Minister received him in a comfortable, rather chintzy sitting-room.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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The stereo mix is hollow and just sounds chintzy.
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Mostly it was overlong and shockingly chintzy — homophobic, too.
2009 November : Scrubbles.net
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And he wants you to order whatever you like, so don't hurt his feelings by being chintzy.
LADY BE GOOD
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Suite 28a of The Beverly Hills Hotel looks like the Hollywood Dream incarnate: chintzy, wonderfully fragrant, and stacked with every feature and fitting imaginable.
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I didn't recall those cartoons as being wonderful but I also didn't recall them being quite that chintzy.
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Count to ten; here comes Gnat, now wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, backwards, with some chintzy plastic bling around her next, a Nerf gun in her hand.
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The entire room was lilac and lavender and was filled with chintzy furniture and elaborate draperies.
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As it is, the money is already pretty chintzy: $2 per person, in crisp one dollar bills, with the unpaid promise that you're helping to program radio stations in your area.
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Apart from one thing: the entire place was filled with vile, chintzy, Sixties decor.
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We give you advice on how to save money without getting a chintzy PC.
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It's a chintzy hat, you can't expect it to last for long.
