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Cheap vs. Tawdry — What's the Difference?

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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