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as in inexpensive
costing little
e-mail is so popular because it's a cheap way to send messages
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as in terrible
of low quality
a cheap sweater that started to unravel almost as soon as I bought it
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as in careful
giving or sharing as little as possible
a cheap coworker who never contributes to the collections taken up in the office
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as in lame
arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust
that was a cheap thing to say to someone who never did you any harm
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as in easy
involving minimal difficulty or effort
the boxer's early bouts were cheap wins, but now he's moving up to the top ranks of boxing
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Recent Examples of cheap
Music There are plenty of cheap seats left for Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour.
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Karla Marie Sanford, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Anybody who owns a home around here can tell you that maintenance ain’t cheap.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
With a price of just $699.99, the Motorola Razr is $300 to $500 cheaper than its stablemates.
—PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
YouTube Music and Premium topped 125 million subs during the quarter, and the company expanded its cheaper Premium Lite product to users in the U.S., priced at $7.99 per month (versus $13.99/month for YouTube Premium and $10.99/month for YouTube Music)..
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
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Karla Marie Sanford, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Anybody who owns a home around here can tell you that maintenance ain’t cheap.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
With a price of just $699.99, the Motorola Razr is $300 to $500 cheaper than its stablemates.
—PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
YouTube Music and Premium topped 125 million subs during the quarter, and the company expanded its cheaper Premium Lite product to users in the U.S., priced at $7.99 per month (versus $13.99/month for YouTube Premium and $10.99/month for YouTube Music)..
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheap
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On Thursday, company executives unveiled an inexpensive, spartan electric truck that comes at a critical time for U.S. consumers and the industry.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Tier 1 includes inexpensive generics, like blood pressure drugs that have been on the market since the 1980s.—
Peter Ubel,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Public interest in the film intensified after a stroke of terrible happenstance.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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United have fallen massively and it’s been a terrible watch all season, bar a couple of highs.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Be careful not to let in too much moisture to avoid any mildew or mold developing on your mattress.—
Terry Baddoo,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Yet Schlossberg is careful to note that May did not shadow-direct the movie during production.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.—
Kevin Fisher-Paulson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 June 2021
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My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.—
Tim Neville,
Outside Online,
23 Nov. 2020
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Although small businesses are the easiest to target, this issue also affects the marketing industry as a whole.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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The four categories are all color-coded to show their difficulty, with yellow being the easiest then green, blue and purple.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Apr. 2025
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Tesla has been teasing an affordable vehicle for a long time.—
Brooke Crothers,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Kimberly Casamento recently began a TikTok series walking viewers through recipes from a cookbook that was focused on affordable meals published in 2009.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
26 Apr. 2025
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Consumer spending softened, increasing 1.8%, down from a 4% rise in the fourth quarter, but a decent performance in light of stock market turmoil and poor weather early in the quarter.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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These factors could contribute material risk to Nike’s earnings and put the company in a poor position to manage near-term headwinds.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
30 Apr. 2025
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Melania Trump wears black veil to Pope Francis' funeral as President Trump dons blue suit As the president's second term in office passes the 100-day mark, here is a closer look at the first lady's lookbook.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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After a raft of project announcements earlier this year, Netflix has offered a closer look at its 2025 film lineup from the Asia Pacific region at a special content showcase in Tokyo.—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheap. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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