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penny-ante
adjective as in inconsiderable
Weak matches
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
adjective as in petty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in game of chance
Example Sentences
No, not the penny-ante conspiracy Hillary Clinton first floated back in the 90s.
He should stop wasting his time taunting Rick Perry with penny-ante bets and put his lucre to good use.
We laugh a good deal, we joke, we play the eternal penny ante, and possibly the letters come.
The limit was set at ten cents, and it was to be a regular penny ante game.
Its nothing but penny-ante, with a ten-cent limit; just enough to make it interesting, you know.
I'm goin' to be settin' in at a little penny-ante in Elmer Rogers' back room over to the Centre.
“You can say anything you like to me, Miss Penny Ante,” he replied encouragingly.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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