How to say "cheaply" in Japanese

• 安くやすく
  adverbCovers the plain sense of 'cheaply' — buying or obtaining something inexpensively. This is the straightforward word for stating that something cost little, though it is the less common of the two entries here.
• せこせこ
  adverb (with と), suru verbMatched to 'cheaply' via its glosses 'stingily' and 'slyly', this onomatopoeic word describes behaving in a stingy, penny-pinching or furtively grasping way. It is seldom the word you want for merely low prices; use it for vivid, slightly critical depictions of miserliness.

Use 「安く」 for the neutral sense of buying or doing something inexpensively; 「せこせこ」 adds a stingy, penny-pinching or slyly grasping nuance and is an onomatopoeic word, so it suits vivid, slightly critical descriptions rather than plain statements of low cost.

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• 安くやすくinexpensively
• せこせこstingily