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cheap
adjective as in inexpensive
Strongest matches
Weak matches
at a bargain, bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, bought for a song, budget, buy, cheapo, cost next to nothing, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, dime a dozen, easy on the pocketbook, half-priced, irregular, low tariff, lowered, marked down, moderate, nominal, on sale, popularly priced, real buy, reduced, sale, slashed, standard, steal, uncostly, undear, utility, worth the money
adjective as in inferior, low in quality
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base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless
adjective as in low, vulgar
Example Sentences
He said that by seeking cheap or free milk online, parents risked feeding their babies a product "potentially laden with bacteria".
He learned to hate the influence of megacorporations and the culture of consuming cheap goods that he thought they fostered, and he detested the waste and pollution that came with it.
But the mass production of cheap products has come under criticism due to concerns about the impact of their shipping and disposal on the environment.
It’s an obviously expensive production — when you follow a highly lauded big-screen classic, even by 50 years, you can’t go cheap — with the touristic exotica that’s characterized every Bond film since “Dr. No” and money spent licensing Radiohead tracks.
While they speak of things like “justice,” the Piltover politicians and police do so with an incomplete understanding of the word because they regard Zaun life as cheap.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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