30 April 2015

chintzy

[chint-see]

adjective, chintzier, chintziest.
1. of, like, or decorated with chintz.
2. cheap, inferior, or gaudy.
3. stingy; miserly:
a chintzy way to entertain guests.

Origin of chintzy
1850-1855; chintz + -y1; cf. chinchy, which has reinforced figurative senses

Synonyms
3. cheap, close, niggardly, stinting.

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Examples from the web for chintzy
– Only a true icon makes every other product in its category seem chintzy and dated, if not totally obsolete.
– And unlike other, flimsier slider phones, the plastic hardware isn’t chintzy.
– Despite the notebook’s mostly plastic construction, it doesn’t come off as chintzy.

Anagram

thy zinc

Today’s aphorism

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

– Peter Hitchens

On this day

30 April – International Jazz Day.

30 April 1945 – German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Germany. Hitler had been Chancellor of Germany since 2 August 1934. He was born in Austria on 20 April 1889.