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sixpenny

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six·pen·ny  (skspn, -p-n)
adj.
1. Valued at, selling for, or worth sixpence.
2. Of little worth; paltry.
sixpenny [ˈsɪkspənɪ]
adj
(Engineering / Tools) (prenominal) (of a nail) two inches in length
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.sixpennysixpenny - of trifling worth                    
tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, threepenny
cheap, inexpensive - relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
Translations
sixpenny (o.f.) [ˈsɪkspənɪ] ADJ (Brit) → de seis peniques (pej) → insignificante, inútil


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However, I do not here propose to go fully into my own position, lest I should seem tedious, and be accused, not for the first time, of a propensity to lecture --a reproach which comes naturally enough from persons whose conceptions are never too wide to be expressed within the limits of a sixpenny telegram.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
card but I feel a mad desire to drag him off to the bar of some common east-end public-house and cram a sixpenny dinner down his throat--beefsteak pudding, fourpence; potatoes, a penny; half a pint of porter, a penny.
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To complete his costume, a floppy felt hat, distinctly Rembrandtish in effect, perched half on his head and mostly over one ear; a sixpenny, white cotton undershirt covered his torso; and from a belt about his middle dangled a tobacco pouch, a sheath-knife, filled clips of cartridges, and a huge automatic pistol in a leather holster.
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