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Meanings of puny in English

(Used especially of persons) of inferior size.

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Usage of puny in English
1
This skyscraper made the Empire State Building look puny for God's sake.
The Neutronium Alchemist
2
The wind hurled their words away in disdain of the puny effort.
Swirling Waters
3
Besides, she's not exactly a threat to them since she's so puny.
A Brewing Storm
4
But we puny mortals are all puppets in the hands of Fate.
Okewood of the Secret Service
5
HORVATH: Is that your puny attempt to embarrass me with my past?
Further adventures
6
They spoke in puny voices, affected by the undertones of the wood.
Iron Council
7
O puny mortal, instruct me not in the miracles of my master.
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member: A Twentieth Century Allegory
8
The drones were tracking the warriors-thesoldiers and their puny female leader.
Genellan: planetfall
9
The cunning of the ages defeats your puny efforts at every turn.
The Black Box
10
Something pinched and puny about Elisabeth Saillard was painful to the eye.
Bureaucracy
11
In eleven months again, October 25, I had another little puny girl.
Woman and the New Race
12
All that remained of Macklin's army was one puny-looking high school geek!
Swan Song
13
And most of them make western music's masculine posturing look positively puny
The Guardian
14
But their efforts seem so puny, and the result so one-sided, that
Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
15
No effort that his puny arm could make availed to check it.
Hunted and Harried
16
Immediately an abortive blow from the poet's puny arm swished the air.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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