tuppenny
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Germans are hot favourites, but Rangers surely couldn't give a tuppenny damn about that.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2022
"I will not go to Germany, I will not embrace this tuppenny princess, and I will not be mated like a prize bull!" snaps the prince.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
Mr. Hind's Mauritius cover, bearing a tuppenny and a one-penny Mauritius stamp, is considered philately's most valuable item, worth $50,000 at least.
From Time Magazine Archive
And well might it have seemed so, for the nephew of the late mighty Railroader Edward Henry Harriman was no tuppenny personage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I opened the fresh box for him, and he had four tuppenny bits.”
From Burr Junior by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
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