paltry in English

adjective

1

(of an amount) small or meager.

she would earn a paltry $33 more each month

synonyms: small, meager, trifling, insignificant, negligible, inadequate, insufficient, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable, niggardly, beggarly, measly, piddling, exiguous

adjective

small, meager, trifling, insignificant, negligible, inadequate, insufficient, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable, niggardly, beggarly, measly, piddling, exiguous
worthless, petty, trivial, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, of little account
trifling, negligible
measly, miserable

Use "paltry" in a sentence

1. She made some paltry excuse and left.

2. Marta was left with a paltry $ 22 million.

3. There was something paltry about it , after all.

4. the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature.

5. He received only a paltry ￡25 a day.

6. Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.

7. This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.

8. The company offered Jeremy a paltry sum which he refused.

9. But aside from Evita City, there is paltry physical evidence of her existence.

10. Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day.

11. The number of Antivirals is paltry compared with the list of bacteria-fighting antibiotics

12. A paltry 5 % reduction of the 1990 level has been set, but by when?

13. The site will open in November with a rather paltry 100 tracks available for download.

14. Cover is a paltry three bucks, and further questions can be answered by calling 622-88

15. That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum.

16. And it approves 5m applications to stay a year: Britain lets in a paltry 000.

17. But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.

18. 1 The burst of issuance yesterday followed a slow start Tuesday and Wednesday, when new borrowing was paltry.

19. The burst of issuance yesterday followed a slow start Tuesday and Wednesday, when new borrowing was paltry.

20. The Cadenza contributed a paltry 1265 sales for Kia in 2020 and the K900 recorded just 305 sales

21. What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 000?

22. Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 7 percent.

23. With commitment and amounts of cash that seemed paltry when compared with government defence budgets, that problem could be solved.

24. But the pay is paltry compared with the hundreds that can be made on a good day of lobstering.

25. But for government bureaucrats the privileges more than compensate for their paltry official salaries of a few hundred dollars a month.

26. They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.

27. HENRI FABRE But what Afflicts me to-day, is not that I snore and sleep meanly and shabbily, like a paltry outcast

28. Yet by the standards of current advertising and sponsorship the sums involved and the use made of sport by advertisers was paltry.

29. This is why the “poster child” district for non-Compactness, Virginia House of Delegates District 72, scored a paltry .26 on Reock and .08 on Polsby-Popper

30. A cubic centimeter of it weighs 5. 9 grams. it's a solid metal at room temperature, but it melts at a paltry 30 degrees Celcius, 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

31. 21 My right index finger — the only digit precise enough to hit the close-set virtual iPhone keys — seemed an anemic, cerebral thing, designed for making paltry points in debating club.

32. The Reflexion is awful--and in this point of view, How trifling, how ridiculous, do the little, paltry Cavillings, of a few weak or interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.

33. In 198 games (an average of only 66 games per season) Baldoquin has a career .235 batting average with five home runs and 56 runs batted in and a paltry .285 on-base percentage

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35. European suburban and regional rail will often connect walkable and self-sufficient pre-modern centers, Antitheses of the places Sound Transit wishes to go, but it usually does so on legacy rights-of-way that cost paltry amounts to reactivate or maintain, compared to the tens of billions Sound Transit proposes to spend on from-scratch