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cheap adjective ( LOW QUALITY )

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Definition

disapproving describes goods that are both low in quality and low in price
I bought some cheap wine for cooking with.
He bought some cheap shoes that fell apart after a couple of months.
cheap and nasty UK
costing little and of very bad quality

(Definition of cheap adjective (LOW QUALITY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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