Significados de paltry thing en inglés

What a paltry thing, after all, is man, man uncomplemented by woman!

It seemed, after all, but a paltry thing in face of her great happiness.

Surely a fearless commando-gorillacommando, at that-won'tshy away from such a paltry thing.

Was it for this, this paltry thing, that Bessie has denied me a word?

Translate this paltry thing into terms of other ambitions-andwhere is any one of us then?

Money has always seemed to me a paltry thing to work for, but now it is for Penelope's sake.

Such a lot of talk about a paltry thing which couldn't have cost ten dollars. And she wheeled back.

Why this paltry thing, revenge?

Our whole marriage will have been fatally undermined because the institution itself will have been reduced to a paltry thing.

What a paltry thing working for a pound a week seemed when a rise like this was to be made!

For even in great and noble men, as soon as self comes into prominent existence, it becomes a mean and paltry thing.

If it has none of the usual outlets, where can imagination express itself if not in some paltry thing like a ribbon?

The bedroom at his latest lodgings was full of boot-trees and trouser-stretchers and coat-holders, but it was a paltry thing and a grimy.

It is for their laughter that I seek to reconstruct society now; and against them your own meagre little life is a paltry thing indeed.

As an individual, you are a paltry thing: it is rather your remarkable good fortune that interests me as a philosopher of sorts....

Because I was poor when young, I can do many paltry things.