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cheap

adj. relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"

chinchy, chintzy

adj. embarrassingly stingy

bum, punk, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered

adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

worthless

adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

battered, bedraggled, beat-up, beaten-up, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

trumpery, trashy, rubbishy

adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"

debilitated, enfeebled, infirm, seedy

adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

gaudy, flashy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

inelegant

adj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

loud

adj. characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"

crass

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

gauche, graceless, unpolished

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

lower-class, low-class

adj. occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society

flamboyant, aureate, showy, florid

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

artless, unsophisticated, unworldly

adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien

unsophisticated, uncomplicated

adj. lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"

mean, beggarly

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

penny-pinching, close, cheeseparing

adj. giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"

closefisted, hardfisted, tightfisted

adj. unwilling to part with money

grudging, niggardly, scrimy

adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"

meager, meagre, scrimpy

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

parsimonious, penurious

adj. excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

bad

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

base

adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

cardboard, flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

common, crude, coarse

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

coarsened

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

commercial

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

less

adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

poor, mediocre, second-rate

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

ropey, ropy

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

second-class

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

third-rate

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

utility, utility-grade

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

barbaric

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

camp, campy

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

indelicate

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

kitsch, ostentatious, pretentious

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

expensive

adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

costly, dearly-won

adj. entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory"

dear, big-ticket, costly, high-priced, pricey, pricy

adj. having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant"

valuable

adj. having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "another human being equally valuable in the sight of God"; "a valuable diamond"

generous

adj. willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation"

expensive

adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

high-class, high-toned

adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"

superior

adj. of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"

in good taste, tasteful

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

plain, simple, modest, unostentatious

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

simple

adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

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