Cheap vs. Tawdry — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cheap and Tawdry
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Cheap
Low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services
Local buses were reliable and cheap
Tawdry
Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance.
Cheap
Of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort
Her moment of cheap triumph
Tawdry
Shameful or indecent
Tawdry secrets.
Cheap
At or for a low price
A house that was going cheap because of the war
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Tawdry
Cheap and gaudy finery.
Cheap
Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
Tawdry
(obsolete) Tawdry lace.
Cheap
Charging low prices
A cheap restaurant.
Tawdry
(obsolete) Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery.
Cheap
Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.
Tawdry
(of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
Cheap
Devalued, as in buying power
Cheap dollars.
Tawdry
(of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.
Cheap
Achieved with little effort
A cheap victory.
Cheap laughs.
Tawdry
Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
And gird in your waist,For more fineness, with a tawdry lace.
Cheap
Of or considered of small value
In wartime, when life was cheap.
Tawdry
Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers.
Cheap
Of poor quality; inferior
A cheap toy.
Tawdry
A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids makeThem tawdries for their necks.
Cheap
Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible
A cheap gangster.
Tawdry
Tastelessly showy;
A flash car
A flashy ring
Garish colors
A gaudy costume
Loud sport shirts
A meretricious yet stylish book
Tawdry ornaments
Cheap
Stingy; miserly.
Tawdry
Cheap and shoddy;
Cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob
Cheap
Inexpensively
Got the new car cheap.
Cheap
(obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
Cheap
(obsolete) A market; marketplace.
Cheap
Price.
Cheap
(obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
Cheap
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply. en
Cheap
Low and/or reduced in price.
Cheap
Of poor quality.
Cheap
Of little worth.
Cheap
Underhand or unfair.
The cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks
Cheap
Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.
Cheap
(finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
Cheap
To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
Cheap
To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
Cheap
To buy; purchase.
Cheap
To sell.
Cheap
Cheaply.
Cheap
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
Cheap
Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap.
Cheap
Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
Cheap
Cheaply.
Cheap
To buy; to bargain.
Cheap
Relatively low in price or charging low prices;
It would have been cheap at twice the price
Inexpensive family restaurants
Cheap
Tastelessly showy;
A flash car
A flashy ring
Garish colors
A gaudy costume
Loud sport shirts
A meretricious yet stylish book
Tawdry ornaments
Cheap
Of very poor quality
Cheap
Embarrassingly stingy
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