Awful and Cheap

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Awful adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Cheap and awful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Awful".

Nearby Word: awfully

Cheap adjective - Costing little.

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Awful and cheap are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Awful" instead an adjective "Cheap".

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

That's because the costume used in the movie was so cheap and awful that they decided to use the actual doll instead.

Source: Film / My Pet Monster
Puppet Masters: Spammer/Brute/Gimmick: Most of your drudges and monstrosities are cheap and awful, but when assisted by an Agitator drudges have the effective MAT and armour cracking ability of an elite unit like Stormblades.

Source: A Commander Is You
In Son of Cliché, there was a Running Gag concerning those cheap and awful local commercial radio adverts, where against all urgent advice the business owner voices the commercial himself, and makes a total pig's ear of it.

Source: AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle

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