1
Food was paltry and hygienic conditions often dismal in damp overcrowded cells.
2
August's no confidence motion saw him survive by a paltry 11 votes.
3
He played a paltry six games for seven clubs over 16 years.
4
My paltry three days of gym training that month weren't kicking in.
5
The Government's reaction so far has been to produce one paltry leaflet.
6
But rival ambitions and paltry jealousies divided the leaders of the Revolution.
7
For the next three nights the paltry rules of society are forfeit.
8
Their counterparts on the American side could only manage a paltry two.
9
That dowry would more than cover the paltry debt upon the lands.
10
That paltry sum was all that stood between them and financial disaster.
11
I only knew my father as a reluctant and paltry monthly check.
12
Put in a paltry thousand or two, and you shall go halves.
13
Lady Bassett looked up, and saw this paltry suspicion in his face.
14
That is how Anning, with his paltry 19 votes, got into parliament.
15
How many of your sex have sold their honor for paltry lucre.
16
I have taken his paltry money-itwent last night to a hospital.
