Synonyms for catchpenny
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kach-pen-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkætʃˌpɛn i |
Top 10 synonyms for catchpenny Other synonyms for the word catchpenny
- base
- blatant
- bogus
- brazen
- catchpenny
- cheap
- cheesy
- chichi
- chintzy
- coarse
- common
- commonplace
- crappy
- cruddy
- crude
- dud
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- frou-frou
- garbage
- garish
- gaudy
- gay
- glaring
- glitzy
- gross
- gussied up
- inferior
- junky
- kitschy
- loud
- lousy
- mangy
- mean
- mediocre
- meretricious
- no bargain
- no good
- obtrusive
- ordinary
- ornate
- paltry
- piddling
- pizzazz
- poor
- pretentious
- putting on the ritz
- raffish
- ratty
- raunchy
- rinky-dink
- ritzy
- rotten
- rubbishy
- screaming
- scroungy
- second-rate
- shoddy
- sleazy
- small-time
- sparkling
- splendiferous
- tasteless
- tatty
- tawdry
- terrible
- tinsel
- trashy
- trumpery
- two-bit
- valueless
- vulgar
- white elephant
- worthless
Définition of catchpenny
- As in two-bit : adj cheap, worth very little
- As in cheap : adj inferior, low in quality
- As in flashy : adj flamboyant, in poor taste
- As in gaudy : adj bright and vulgar
- Wrote a tale of "'76," which with others will make a catchpenny book.
- Extract from : « Louisa May Alcott » by Louisa May Alcott
- And what catchpenny ballad writer could not write a parody on them as you have done?
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two » by Harriette Wilson
- It was Marr, though, who had seized upon it when it merely was a catchpenny carnival device and made of it a real money earner.
- Extract from : « Sundry Accounts » by Irvin S. Cobb
- It is the staple commodity of your newspaper-mongers, and the catchpenny song of the streets.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 » by Various
- Their popularity is not of the catchpenny sort; thoughtful people read them, as well as the great drove of the undiscriminating.
- Extract from : « Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 » by Various
- Fortunate, indeed, is the famous man who escapes the catchpenny biographer.
- Extract from : « Old Familiar Faces » by Theodore Watts-Dunton
Antonyms for catchpenny
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