What is the meaning of cheap?

Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
- usage: "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
- synonyms: inexpensive
Tastelessly showy.
- usage: "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
Of very poor quality; flimsy.
- synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
Embarrassingly stingy.
- synonyms: chinchy, chintzy

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