Well below average height.
(Used especially of persons) of inferior size.
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Examples for "puny"
Examples for "puny"
1This skyscraper made the Empire State Building look puny for God's sake.
2The wind hurled their words away in disdain of the puny effort.
3Besides, she's not exactly a threat to them since she's so puny.
4But we puny mortals are all puppets in the hands of Fate.
5HORVATH: Is that your puny attempt to embarrass me with my past?
1He goes to a turtleneck-sweatered woman speaking to a shrimpy, goateed man.
2And he didn't even like dogs, let alone ugly, shrimpy, psychologically challenged ones.
3Wiping her shrimpy hands with a dish towel, she hurried across the room to pick up the phone.
4What's this shrimpy thing?'
5The best part of the business is not the two haunches with the shrimpy flavor, but what I have just learnt.
1And though Pavek had encountered runty elves, his best guess was half-elf.
2Kronos stood about nine feet tall, which was runty for a Titan.
3A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.
4In the language of the country they meant runty, mean-figured, undersized.
5I love it the way a bitch loves her runty pup.
6The sight of the runty Barrett beside his six-foot ebony-skinned spouse encouraged Quinette.
7But theoretically adequate for a pack of unaccompanied kids, all runty and starving.
8The little, runty apples would try to hold a mass meeting at the bottom.
9The little girl, too-therunty one with black hair, the one you've been teaching.
10And he's a good 'un, that Tobin, even if he is sorta runty and girlish.
11Of a certain runty rat-faced boy, Tormund said, That one's a whelp of Varamyr Sixskins.
12Six feet, five inches tall, might as well have been twenty to runty Nick Andros.
13It seemed a travesty for this runty little man to be wearing the same clothes.
14We'll weed out the runty humpbacked critters and all off-color she-stuff; keep only straight red cows.
15Most were on foot, and those who had transport-carts, cars, runty mules-were already laden with passengers.
16It's the story of a how a runty horse stole the heart of a depressed nation.