- pen|ny-plain
- pen|ny-plain «PEHN ee PLAYN», adjective.plain and unpretentious: »
“The Wanting Seed” is far less disastrous, but in its penny-plain style, it…can be ranked with…Orwell and Huxley (Time).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
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