"pennyante" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pennyante",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pennyante",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pennyante (comparative more pennyante, superlative most pennyante)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "penny-ante"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, Computer Privacy, page 117",
          "text": "You wouldn't want one of your agents doing something like that just to convict a pennyante gambler.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, National Right to Work Committee, National Right to Work Newsletter, Volumes 16-20, page 28",
          "text": "What the workers detest most is the UFW hiring hall ... the pennyante dispatch halls which give UFW organizers dictatorial control over the workers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gina Wilkins, The Littlest Stowaway",
          "text": "It would serve you right if I left you to deal with Annie and your pennyante charter service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Donald E. Westlake, Why Me?",
          "text": "\"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?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of penny-ante"
      ],
      "id": "en-pennyante-en-adj-FMfo1Pik",
      "links": [
        [
          "penny-ante",
          "penny-ante#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pennyante"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pennyante",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pennyante",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pennyante (comparative more pennyante, superlative most pennyante)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "penny-ante"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, Computer Privacy, page 117",
          "text": "You wouldn't want one of your agents doing something like that just to convict a pennyante gambler.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, National Right to Work Committee, National Right to Work Newsletter, Volumes 16-20, page 28",
          "text": "What the workers detest most is the UFW hiring hall ... the pennyante dispatch halls which give UFW organizers dictatorial control over the workers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gina Wilkins, The Littlest Stowaway",
          "text": "It would serve you right if I left you to deal with Annie and your pennyante charter service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Donald E. Westlake, Why Me?",
          "text": "\"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?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of penny-ante"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penny-ante",
          "penny-ante#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pennyante"
}