twopenny-halfpenny

ADJECTIVE
  1. of trifling worth
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How To Use twopenny-halfpenny In A Sentence

  • The ubiquitous twopenny-halfpenny clerk was everywhere, ever present and ever reliable.
  • It is your little twopenny-halfpenny authors - the sort that would be dear at six for a shilling - that ‘knock off’ things in a few hours.
  • I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.
  • There was good reason behind such ambitions, for ‘if you were a prince with no gun salute, then every twopenny-halfpenny political Agent could come and visit you every three months and ask to see the accounts.
  • Is it ethics - when did it influence your conduct in a twopenny-halfpenny affair between man and man?
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