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pennyante en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of penny-ante.
It would serve you right if I left you to deal with Annie and your pennyante charter service.
2012, Gina Wilkins, The Littlest Stowaway, →ISBN:"So," Mologna said, "a lot of you social misfits, pennyante heisters, cheapjack four-flushers, and miserable hopeless losers figure you'll help the Police Department of the City of New York find the Byzantine Fire, is that it?"
2014, Donald E. Westlake, Why Me?:What the workers detest most is the UFW hiring hall ... the pennyante dispatch halls which give UFW organizers dictatorial control over the workers.
1970, National Right to Work Committee, National Right to Work Newsletter, Volumes 16-20, page 28:You wouldn't want one of your agents doing something like that just to convict a pennyante gambler.
1967, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, Computer Privacy, page 117:
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