dirt cheap

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dirt cheap
Adjective
  • Their tech lets clothing companies show off a wide variety of sizes and styles—and for a whole lot cheaper.
    Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In Flacco and Pickett, the Browns have two veteran backups on cheap contracts signed only for 2025.
    Zac Jackson, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But looking at the right benchmarks shows that post-neoliberal economic policy—evident to a large degree in the actions of the Biden administration—righted the ship and kept the country afloat and sailing at a reasonable clip.
    Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Read has pleaded not guilty, denied killing O'Keefe and alleged she is being framed, attempting to sow reasonable doubt in prosecutors' claims and asserting that someone else killed O'Keefe and had ties to and influence over the investigation.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For American families, this means relatively inexpensive toys could become luxuries.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
  • This adds to development costs and puts a damper on Thunderbolt adoption spreading to budget laptops and other inexpensive products.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sanders focused broadly on the need for livable wages, access to health care and affordable housing, and similar issues that have long been part of the Independent politician’s platform.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The Associated Press reported in early March that the HUD had also terminated its $1 billion Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, which funds renovation projects at affordable housing units nationwide.
    Julia Mueller, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The survey's measure of consumer sentiment dropped to a level lower than at any point during the Great Recession.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Some hurdles are too low (come on, everyone knows Deborah won’t be mad at Ava forever), and others are too high.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Anastasio’s enthusiasm for Bernstein is based, in part, on the composer’s ability to effectively wed classical theory with popular song.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This popular straight-shaft gas trimmer is lightweight and easy to use.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Dirt cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirt%20cheap. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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