Cheap and Nasty

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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

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

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Nasty adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.

Usage example: fortunately, the story's nasty characters are balanced by some truly good people

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Cheap and nasty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Nasty".

Nearby Word: nastily

An offshoot of Rik and Ade's series Bottom, it features main characters Richie and Eddie running a cheap and nasty hotel.Very cheap.

Source: Film / Guest House Paradiso
The books state that cheap and nasty appliances that couldn't possibly pose any kind of threat to Mankind don't get a belief chip installed, resulting in atheist toasters.

Source: Robot Religion
Neither device is a comfortable way to travel (which is something of a verbal running gag for the vortex manipulator, often getting called a "cheap and nasty" way to travel).

Source: Our Time Machine Is Different

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