Cheap and Inept

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Cheap adjective - Costing little.

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

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Inept adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.

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Cheap and inept are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Inept".

Nearby Words: ineptitude, ineptly

Cheap crew members in Grand Theft Auto V may seem to be either incompetent or inept at first, but can be of great use either through experience, like in the case of hacker Rickie Lukens and driver Karim Denz, or if used on later missions.

Source: Magikarp Power
It is considered one of the worst (or funniest, if you have a really sick sense of humour) films ever made, using only a single set of a laboratory with a cage in the middle, cheap costumes, poor lighting and inept editing.

Source: Film / The Beast in Heat

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