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paltry

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pal·try  (pôltr)
adj. pal·tri·er, pal·tri·est
1. Lacking in importance or worth. See Synonyms at trivial.
2. Wretched or contemptible.

[Probably from obsolete and dialectal paltry, trash, perhaps from Low German paltrig, ragged, from palte, rag.]

paltri·ly adv.
paltri·ness n.

paltry
Adjective
[-trier, -triest] insignificant [Low Germanic palter, paltrig ragged]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.paltry - not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
2.paltry - contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

paltry
adjective 2. insignificant, trivial, worthless, unimportant, small, low, base, minor, slight, petty, trifling, Mickey Mouse (slang) piddling (informal) toytown (slang) poxy (slang) nickel-and-dime U.S. (slang) picayune U.S. twopenny-halfpenny Brit. (informal) << OPPOSITE important
Translations
paltry [ˈpɔːltrɪ] adj [amount etc] → miserable (= insignificant) [person] → insignificante
paltry [ˈpɔːltrɪ] adjdérisoire; piètre
paltry [ˈpɔːltrɪ] adj [amount, wage] → armselig
paltry [ˈpɔːltrɪ] adjderisorio/a, insignificante


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Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.
For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.
Aye, lighting from the boat to the deck, thus I trample on thee, thou paltry thing that feebly pointest on high; thus I split and destroy thee
 
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