Definition of cheap

"cheap" in the adjective sense

1. cheap, inexpensive

relatively low in price or charging low prices

"it would have been cheap at twice the price"

"inexpensive family restaurants"

2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

tastelessly showy

"a flash car"

"a flashy ring"

"garish colors"

"a gaudy costume"

"loud sport shirts"

"a meretricious yet stylish book"

"tawdry ornaments"

3. bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

of very poor quality flimsy

4. cheap, chinchy, chintzy

embarrassingly stingy

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Quotations for cheap

Good cheap is dear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The more you heap,
The worse you cheap. [ Proverb ]

Ill ware is never cheap. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The best is the best cheap. [ Proverb ]

Hope is as cheap as despair. [ Proverb ]

The lion's skin is never cheap. [ Proverb ]

The cheap buyer takes bad meat. [ Proverb ]

Good cheap is dear at long-run. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity has every thing cheap. [ Proverb ]

Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Be our joy three-parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang;
Dare, never grudge the throe! [ Browning ]

O God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap! [ Hood ]

Lions' skins are not to be had cheap. [ Proverb ]

It is cheap enough to say, God help you. [ Proverb ]

Education is the cheap defense of nations. [ Burke ]

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. [ Thoreau ]

Heaven is a cheap purchase, whatever it cost. [ Proverb ]

In cloths, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell. [ George Herbert ]

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.

I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. [ Fuller ]

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. [ Lady Montagu ]

If our bodies were to cost no more than our souls, we might board cheap. [ Proverb ]

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! [ Hosea Ballou ]

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market. [ Ben Jonson ]

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savage. [ Chatfield ]

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! [ Burke ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]

There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations. It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

cheap in Scrabble®

The word cheap is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters cheap:

PEACH
(48)
CHEAP
(48)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word cheap

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In cheap

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cheap in Words With Friends™

The word cheap is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters cheap:

PEACH
(63)
PEACH
(63)
CHEAP
(63)
CHEAP
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word cheap

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cheap

PEACH
(63)
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CHEAP
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Words within the letters of cheap

2 letter words in cheap (6 words)

3 letter words in cheap (5 words)

4 letter words in cheap (6 words)

5 letter words in cheap (Anagrams) (2 words)

cheap + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence cheap

Words with cheap in them (1 word)

Words that end with cheap (2 words)

Word Growth involving cheap

Shorter words in cheap

he heap

Longer words containing cheap

cheaped

cheapen cheapened

cheapen cheapening

cheapen cheapens

cheaper

cheapest

cheaping

cheapish cheapishly

cheaply

cheapness

cheapo cheapos

cheapskate cheapskates

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