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
Peter Sellers is a caution as a tuppenny Hitler in this hilarious travesty on labor-management relations in the "farewell state."
From Time Magazine Archive
Second in importance to Philatelist Hind's $82,500 scraps were three more Mauritius stamps—one tuppenny, two one-pennies— owned by Alfred F. Lichtenstein of Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tell you, I could feel the flesh creepin' on my bones an' a feelin' in the pit o' my stomach like I'd swallowed a tuppenny ice-cream whole.
From Between the Lines by Cable, Boyd
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