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puny Adjective [-nier, -niest] small and weakly [Old French puisné born later]
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puny adjective 1. feeble, weak, frail, little, tiny, weakly, stunted, diminutive, sickly, undeveloped, pint-sized (informal) undersized, underfed, dwarfish, pygmy or pigmy << OPPOSITE strong adjective 2. insignificant, minor, petty, inferior, trivial, worthless, trifling, paltry, inconsequential, piddling (informal)  Translations puny [ˈpjuːnɪ] adj → enclenque puny [ˈpjuːnɪ] adj → chétif/ive puny [ˈpjuːnɪ] adj [person, arms etc] → schwächlich; [efforts] → kläglich, kümmerlich puny [ˈpjuːnɪ] adj → gracile |
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They would expect him to conform to their type, to learn to speak their jargon, to think with their puny brains and to see with their short-sighted eyes. Nor did she go pining and moping about the house, like a puny, foolish girl, ignorant of her distemper: she felt, she knew, and she enjoyed, the pleasing sensation, of which, as she was certain it was not only innocent but laudable, she was neither afraid nor ashamed. And in that time, in a large cage of concrete and iron, Ben Bolt had exercised and recovered the use of his muscles, and added to his hatred of the two-legged things, puny against him in themselves, who by trick and wile had so helplessly imprisoned him. |
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