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
In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Came a bolt from the blue When, collecting his due, The conductor remarked, "Though I thank That young cake-eating gent For the penny he's sent, It's a tuppenny ride to the Bank!"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 by Various
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