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[ adjective ] relatively low in price or charging low prices

Synonyms

inexpensive

Examples

"it would have been cheap at twice the price" "inexpensive family restaurants"

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

When he came to the movies - more_or_less by accident - they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes .

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

Until internal_combustion became cheap , he had_to be near a railroad_siding and a trolley_line or an existing large community of lower-class homes .

The railroad_siding is still important - it is usually , though not always , true that long-haul shipment by rail is cheaper than trucking .

(William Maxwell, The Chateau....)

Cheap clothing and junk of every sort , as far as the eye could see .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

The place had been cheap - just the little he had left after Amelia 's burial - and it would serve its purpose .

2
[ adjective ] tastelessly showy

Examples

"a flash car" "a flashy ring" "garish colors" "a gaudy costume" "loud sport shirts" "a meretricious yet stylish book" "tawdry ornaments"

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

Claire felt suddenly small and cheap , heroine of a trivial episode in the voluminous history of Don_Juan .

Related terms

tasteless

3
[ adjective ] (informal) of very poor quality

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

Perhaps it is only an analogy , but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation .

Related terms

colloquialism inferior

4
[ adjective ] embarrassingly stingy

Synonyms

chintzy chinchy

Related terms

stingy

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