(Used especially of persons) of inferior size.
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Examples for "puny "
Examples for "puny "
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?
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.
6 They both wore white tunics with green bindings; the livery was all too familiar: the Gordianus steward and his shrimpy sidekick.
7 They were probably trying to picture their shrimpy little brother Kronos taking on their huge violent dad, and they weren't liking the odds.
8 No one is gonna think you're a shrimpy little kid, because you're angry and you're taking on the big issues of the day.
9 The cost was a major insult to our budget and our bank account; and I gather the dangers we staved off were rather shrimpy .
10 "I keep looking at the shrimpy guys in the stained-glass windows," he said.
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