Cheap and Foolish

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Cheap adjective - Costing little.

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

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Foolish adjective - Showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment.

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Cheap and foolish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Foolish".

Nearby Words: fool, foolishness, foolery, foolishly

O'Reilly is portrayed as an incompetent foolish God-fearing Irish builder who only gets hired because he is cheap.

Source: Once Acceptable Targets
A common live-action variant is a character buying shoes too small for their feet, either through foolish pride of refusing to admit that they have large feet or being too cheap to buy full price, insisting that their low-price leather shoes will extend with wear.

Source: Agony of the Feet

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