Meanings of paltriness in English

A true gentleman's face is infinitely removed from all such paltriness,-calm-eyed ,firm-mouthed

Of the paltriness of his ambition, he had no inward hint.

How do I know that he will not despise my meanness and paltriness?

All this homage helped Jared to gloss over the paltriness of their actual check.

The moment brought new understanding of the paltriness of words.

Forbid it, and forbid that their names should live except in memory of their paltriness!

Unable to portray a Clytæmnestra, he revels in the continual paltriness of a Menelaus or Ulysses.

The expedients of which the nobility availed themselves were as various as political paltriness could suggest.

Which brings us to another reason for our uncertainty about extinctions: the paltriness of the fossil record.

The paltriness of the theft revolted me, Mr. Cleggett, and I determined to bring this person to justice.

The mass of women have always been paltry creatures, and their paltriness has proved a curse to men.

Nor was Polybius able wholly to disengage himself from the vanity and paltriness of the Hellenic statesmanship of the time.

Yet, surely, the bitterest tragedies are those of which the central anguish is lost amid the dust of surrounding paltriness.

Humiliating paltriness of revenge

Despite the undoubted paltriness of the budget, the film-makers have managed to infuse the piece with an impressively spooky, washed-out ambience.

In the shape of the flower his own paltriness revisits him-his triviality, his sloth, his cheapness, his wholesale habitualness, his slatternly ostentation.