Bad
Bad adjective - Of low quality.
Usage example: bad shoes that fell apart within a week
Cheap is a synonym for bad in poor quality topic. In some cases you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Bad".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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This became an embarrassment to German industrialists, especially after a German adjudicator remarked that the German products shown at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876) were in the majority "cheap and bad".
Source: Made in Country X - Examples include being in the way, to convince someone else they were bad-ass or just for a cheap trick.
Source: Immortal Life Is Cheap - This trailer reveals the true face what's behind the game, notable stuff include bad coded explosions that people think it looks like exploding pizza, horrible voice acting and cheap budget models.
Source: So Bad Its Good / Advertising
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Cheap and Bad. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/cheap
Bad & Cheap. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/cheap>.
Cheap or Bad. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/cheap.
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