CHEAPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheaply mean? 

• CHEAPLY (adverb)
  The adverb CHEAPLY has 3 senses:

1. in a stingy manner

2. in a cheap manner

3. with little expenditure of money

  Familiarity information: CHEAPLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEAPLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a stingy manner

Synonyms:

cheaply; chintzily; stingily

Context example:

their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily

Pertainym:

cheap (embarrassingly stingy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a cheap manner

Synonyms:

cheaply; inexpensively; tattily

Context example:

a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar

Antonym:

expensively (in an expensive manner)

Pertainym:

cheap (relatively low in price or charging low prices)

Sense 3

Meaning:

With little expenditure of money

Synonyms:

cheaply; inexpensively

Context example:

I bought this car very cheaply

Pertainym:

cheap (relatively low in price or charging low prices)

 Context examples 

I think we were all pleased to be so cheaply quit of him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Watermelon rind, usually discarded as waste, has been shown by researchers in Pakistan to be capable of cheaply and efficiently removing arsenic from groundwater.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

I replied, with all due deference to his experience (but with more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), that perhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court, containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose, leased by the registrars for their Own private emolument, unsafe, not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the important documents it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, a mercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees from the public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow and anywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)