Significados de very paltry en inglés

This place appears to you very paltry for 'his excellency,' does it not?

A very paltry old woman excited the image-breaking of Antwerp.

A very paltry and pitiful intrigue at length settled the question between Townshend and Carteret.

It's a very paltry little affair, this life of ours, at the best of it.

This provision was considered very paltry by all the powers, masculine or feminine, whom we consulted.

These seemed very paltry things for a man of such wisdom to bother his head about.

The ordinary capital, however, which is made out of Carlyle's alleged gloom is a very paltry matter.

In reality, however, it is not so; something, I know not what, is lacking, and everything is very paltry.

In reality, however, it is not so; something, I know not what, is wanting, and it is all very paltry.

If not, the sum must be exorbitant, or your life is a very paltry one, even in your own opinion.

This is a very paltry discussion of a great matter, but no more space can be given to it here.

Of course-butI didn't know that $200,000 was so very paltry.

Well, we are misled by the scientific label: we have to do with a very paltry insect, smaller than the common gnat.

This is, indeed, only a very paltry by-product of humility, but it is a product of humility, and, therefore, it is successful.

I do not wonder, dear, at your being disappointed, after what you have been used to, two hundred dollars must seem a very paltry sum.

"A very paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare!"