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Meanings of puny in English
Synonyms
Examples for "runty"
Examples for "runty"
1
And though Pavek had encountered runty elves, his best guess was half-elf.
2
Kronos stood about nine feet tall, which was runty for a Titan.
3
A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.
4
In the language of the country they meant runty, mean-figured, undersized.
5
I love it the way a bitch loves her runty pup.
1
He goes to a turtleneck-sweatered woman speaking to a shrimpy, goateed man.
2
And he didn't even like dogs, let alone ugly, shrimpy, psychologically challenged ones.
3
Wiping her shrimpy hands with a dish towel, she hurried across the room to pick up the phone.
4
What's this shrimpy thing?'
5
The best part of the business is not the two haunches with the shrimpy flavor, but what I have just learnt.
Usage of puny in English
1
This skyscraper made the Empire State Building look puny for God's sake.
2
The wind hurled their words away in disdain of the puny effort.
3
Besides, she's not exactly a threat to them since she's so puny.
4
But we puny mortals are all puppets in the hands of Fate.
5
HORVATH: Is that your puny attempt to embarrass me with my past?
6
They spoke in puny voices, affected by the undertones of the wood.
7
O puny mortal, instruct me not in the miracles of my master.
8
The drones were tracking the warriors-thesoldiers and their puny female leader.
9
The cunning of the ages defeats your puny efforts at every turn.
10
Something pinched and puny about Elisabeth Saillard was painful to the eye.
11
In eleven months again, October 25, I had another little puny girl.
12
All that remained of Macklin's army was one puny-looking high school geek!
13
And most of them make western music's masculine posturing look positively puny
14
But their efforts seem so puny, and the result so one-sided, that
15
No effort that his puny arm could make availed to check it.
16
Immediately an abortive blow from the poet's puny arm swished the air.
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Puny through the time
Puny across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common