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  • adjective of trifling worth

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Examples

  • We all have baggage in our pasts to deal with and it'd be great to be able to deal with them on our own - esp if our partners are either (a) unaware or (b) don't give two-tuppeny-bits about them.

    In Confidence... juliette 2009

  • Does it matter a tuppeny damn that it was white Englishman, William Wilberforce who managed to outlaw slavery in England and its colonies only that it was stopped.

    When Skin Color Matters 2007

  • Does it matter a tuppeny damn that it was white Englishman, William Wilberforce who managed to outlaw slavery in England and its colonies only that it was stopped.

    When Skin Color Matters 2007

  • Does it matter a tuppeny damn that it was white Englishman, William Wilberforce who managed to outlaw slavery in England and its colonies only that it was stopped.

    When Skin Color Matters 2007

  • Take her out of poor tuppeny luck before she goes off in pure treple licquidance.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I leave that stuff to smart people, and throw my tuppeny worth in where it doesn't seem horribly inappropriate.

    Oppressed by the label "Republican"? Ann Althouse 2006

  • And all of this, please note, for a tuppeny-ha'penny article, in a magazine with a circulation of 6000.

    Libel lunacy Michael Allen 2004

  • And all of this, please note, for a tuppeny-ha'penny article, in a magazine with a circulation of 6000.

    Archive 2004-04-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • And all of this, please note, for a tuppeny-ha'penny article, in a magazine with a circulation of 6000.

    April 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • "That there's a doctor, not 'un'a yer tuppeny whoors!"

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

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