Deserving or inciting pity.
Contemptibly small in amount.
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Examples for "paltry "
Examples for "paltry "
1 Food was paltry and hygienic conditions often dismal in damp overcrowded cells.
2 August's no confidence motion saw him survive by a paltry 11 votes.
3 He played a paltry six games for seven clubs over 16 years.
4 My paltry three days of gym training that month weren't kicking in.
5 The Government's reaction so far has been to produce one paltry leaflet.
1 You are the measly Johnny Reb I brought in day before yesterday.
2 Holder of a measly 12 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
3 Hoffenheim, meanwhile, have only managed one measly win since the winter break.
4 They snatch at a little measly advantage and miss the big one.
5 Last night's cab fare made a sizeable dent in my measly treasury.
Of the most contemptible kind.
Of very poor quality or condition.
Другие значения термина "miserable" 1 It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.
2 You behold in me the most miserable monarch in all the world.
3 He was miserable ; he had no confidence in himself, in his future.
4 The idea - the miserable fancy rather-hasterribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel.
5 They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
6 Shipbuilding by the natives in private shipyards was in a miserable condition.
7 The country all the way, in fact, is most miserable and intolerable.
8 She was miserable ; life was so dull; she wanted to get away.
9 The scene I had just witnessed in the dining-room made me miserable .
10 In 1541 came the miserable fiasco of the Spanish expedition to Algiers.
11 The life of the Spanish-speaking people at the mines was made miserable .
12 I know I shall be in a miserable state during the journey.
13 It was the fore-runner of the Slavin clan, the miserable Bud Jones.
14 It was not His Law; it was a miserable juggling with texts.
15 The miserable remnants of the nation were scattered everywhere over the world.
16 Yet even then-inspite of that miserable letter- Iretainedfaith in you.
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