Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
penny ante poker - adjective
played for smallstakes - adjective
trivial
Etymologies
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From penny + ante
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Examples
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So, professor, there's another slip of your "factuality" for you — and not pennyante either!
Nelson Algren: An Exchange Drew, Bettina 1990
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Not to mention that this is such cheap pennyante stuff.
Signs of the Times 2009
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Not to mention that this is such cheap pennyante stuff.
CANNONFIRE 2009
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I mean, it’s like he doesn’t really understand that we’ll mostly likely be coerced to cut the budget in the near future, precisely because of his and his kind’s pennyante behavior.
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