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Paltry
"Paltry" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Of all the many millions of things that I might do, the things that are worth doing are but a paltry few.
The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.
They apologize for the paltry offering and hope you'll accept $50,000.
Why do you want to work for a paltry sum?
These shoes cost me the paltry sum of ten euros.
These shoes cost me a paltry ten euros.
This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
She made some paltry excuse and left.
There are a great many languages, like Eskimo and Nootka and, aside from paltry exceptions, the Semitic languages, that cannot compound radical elements.
Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
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Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz, That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece, Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings. Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!
Meanwhile, the trade deal has left Britain’s fishing communities screaming betrayal, unhappy with their paltry gains and facing expensive barriers to export what they have caught.
a paltry coward
"An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick"
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