Cheap and Lame

Cheap

Cheap adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.
Usage example: that was a cheap thing to say to someone who never did you any harm

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

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Lame

Lame adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.
Usage example: just some lame stereotyping of ethnic minorities

Cheap and lame are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Lame".

Nearby Words: lameness, lamed, lamely

Both words in one sentence

  • Joker Immunity Ironically, a villain could also be ostensibly lame, and killing them off is seen as too 'serious' a treatment rather than just putting them on a bus or a cheap attempt to ramp up the stakes.
  • Cat Scare Parodied repeatedly and beaten to death with a stick in the horror movie parody film Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, where characters keep being scared by cats with tell tale names, like "Cheap Shot" and "Lame Gag".
    Source: Cat Scare
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