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Meanings of paltriness in inglés

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Worthlessness due to insignificance.

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Examples for "sorriness"
Examples for "sorriness"
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And her sorriness held her heart warm, in the glow of giving comfort.
The Fortieth Door
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I feel a stab of sorriness, but there is no chance to say more.
The great lover
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It's in the relation between the sorriness and the wonderful that 8½ casts its spell.
The Guardian
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But she did not tell them of the sorriness of her situation: it might have brought reproach upon him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
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Maybe just first-degree sorriness.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
Usage of paltriness in inglés
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A true gentleman's face is infinitely removed from all such paltriness,-calm-eyed ,firm-mouthed
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Of the paltriness of his ambition, he had no inward hint.
The Elect Lady
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How do I know that he will not despise my meanness and paltriness?
Town and Country Sermons
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All this homage helped Jared to gloss over the paltriness of their actual check.
Under the Skylights
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The moment brought new understanding of the paltriness of words.
The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love
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Forbid it, and forbid that their names should live except in memory of their paltriness!
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
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Unable to portray a Clytæmnestra, he revels in the continual paltriness of a Menelaus or Ulysses.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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The expedients of which the nobility availed themselves were as various as political paltriness could suggest.
The History of Rome, Book II / From the Abolition of the Monarch...
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Which brings us to another reason for our uncertainty about extinctions: the paltriness of the fossil record.
A short history of nearly everything
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The paltriness of the theft revolted me, Mr. Cleggett, and I determined to bring this person to justice.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
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The mass of women have always been paltry creatures, and their paltriness has proved a curse to men.
The Odd Women
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Nor was Polybius able wholly to disengage himself from the vanity and paltriness of the Hellenic statesmanship of the time.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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Yet, surely, the bitterest tragedies are those of which the central anguish is lost amid the dust of surrounding paltriness.
Lady Baltimore
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Humiliating paltriness of revenge
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
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Despite the undoubted paltriness of the budget, the film-makers have managed to infuse the piece with an impressively spooky, washed-out ambience.
The Irish Times
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In the shape of the flower his own paltriness revisits him-his triviality, his sloth, his cheapness, his wholesale habitualness, his slatternly ostentation.
The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays
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Paltriness through the time