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Meanings of puny in English

(Used especially of persons) of inferior size.

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                Examples for "runty"
                Examples for "runty"
                1
                And though Pavek had encountered runty elves, his best guess was half-elf.
                The brazen gambit
                2
                Kronos stood about nine feet tall, which was runty for a Titan.
                Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
                3
                A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.
                Charlotte’s Web
                4
                In the language of the country they meant runty, mean-figured, undersized.
                From Place to Place
                5
                I love it the way a bitch loves her runty pup.
                East of eden
                1
                He goes to a turtleneck-sweatered woman speaking to a shrimpy, goateed man.
                Fantastic Orgy
                2
                And he didn't even like dogs, let alone ugly, shrimpy, psychologically challenged ones.
                Take a Chance on Me
                3
                Wiping her shrimpy hands with a dish towel, she hurried across the room to pick up the phone.
                Stay Out from the Basement
                4
                What's this shrimpy thing?'
                Number9Dream
                5
                The best part of the business is not the two haunches with the shrimpy flavor, but what I have just learnt.
                The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                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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