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Definition of Cheapish
1. somewhat cheap [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapish
Literary usage of Cheapish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"Is invited in by his old servant, St. Christopher. Walks in like a great lout,
looking sheepish and cheapish ; takes a mug, bows awkwardly, and exclaiming, ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"... none of the cheapish goods that careful housekeepers wouldn't have at any
price—but worthy, desirable, high-grade goods, at very decisive reductions, ..."
3. The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-time Literature (1890)
"... they saw a great many cheapish books were held together in this way. It had
many disadvantages, and not least that it left ugly brown patches on the ..."
4. The American Educational Monthly for the School and the Family (1866)
"... and ses I : ' Say, won't yer have a strawberry and a roasted chesnut to wash
them are big words down ?' Well, the young feller looked cheapish, ..."
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