The word "chintzy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that is of poor quality and is generally considered to be cheap or miserly. For example: "This item may be cheap, but the materials used are so chintzy that I don't think it will last very long."
In keeping with the unswervingly retro, chintzy feel, the Elvis-themed suites have all been arranged in the same gung-ho fashion.
Over a chintzy soundtrack, the voiceover to one recounted: "They decide to shun social media prophecy and return to musical naturism – just the two of them and some instruments and actual live contact with real people, in the form of intimate gigs in dirty places".
Qatar Airways (0870 3898 090; qatarairways.com) flies to Bali (via Doha) from Heathrow from £594 White Waters is about as far from the chintzy image of Madeira as it is possible to be.
The accommodation won't win any style awards – rooms are comfy enough but slightly chintzy – but then you're not really here for that.
Sometimes I try to bargain with the universe, and wonder how much of my life I would trade for one more big, raucous, Russo-American meal cooked by my grandmother, served on chintzy china in her orange-carpeted dining room, in the company of cousins I no longer see or know.
Mr Maude's unpitying honesty was greeted with predictable hostility by the chintzy ballroom of the Winter Gardens.
Once inside, the impression is confirmed by chintzy decorations and a pervasive aroma of curry from the Indian restaurant next door.
To get the look, channel 1950s inspired sea-side vibes, with distressed wood tables, sorbet-coloured accessories and chintzy prints.
Rascal recently relocated from his native east London to Kent's chintzy Chislehurst.
By the seaside Throw this bright and chintzy cushion on a wood bench or dining chair and you'll be feeling the seaside ice-cream parlour vibe in no time.
There's nothing chintzy about it, nothing olde worlde and nothing the least bit pretentious.
