penny-ante
Example Sentences
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That was penny-ante compared to the news that a metal salvager had found 52 of that year’s Oscars statuettes, still plastic-wrapped, in the trash behind a Koreatown store.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023
As far as they're concerned, this is penny-ante stuff hardly even worth talking about.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2022
Huge losses leading to penny-ante tax payments isn’t a good look.
From Fox News • Sep. 28, 2020
Bad manners, naked selfishness, penny-ante nitpicking and ham-fisted abuse of power will make club life obsolete for anybody under 50 faster than you can say “OK, Boomer.”
From Golf Digest • Mar. 2, 2020
But those penny-ante squares who came in there putting on their millionaires’ airs, the young ones and the old ones both, only annoyed me.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
