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14 total sentences available.
Some drawing-rooms are all new and garish, and look as if they were never used except for an hour or two in the evening, and some are grand and stiff like a hotel, and others are all sweet and chintzy and home-like, with lots of plants and a scent of pot-pourri in china vases.
Source: tatoeba (11172614)
Coupons and loyalty chits have traditionally been gimmicks, sometimes luring the incautious into spending more than they would have without the coupons, the loyalty reward catalogs being loaded with cheap and chintzy goods.
Source: tatoeba (11857240)
This time she showed him into her living room instead of the kitchen. It was a little chintzier than it would have been if she'd actually owned the place, but he seemed to like it and sank comfortably into a loose-covered, old-fashioned, square-cornered sofa.
Source: wiktionary
Wanting to get out of the house, he descended toward the large living room with its chintzy curtains and stuffy lamps and pictures. His least favorite room.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include cheap, beat up, beat-up, bedraggled, blatant.
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