All 4 Uses of
paltry
in
Middlemarch
- "There's not a more paltry fellow in Middlemarch than Bowyer," said Ladislaw, indignantly, "but it seems as if the paltry fellows were always to turn the scale."†
Chpt 5 *
- "There's not a more paltry fellow in Middlemarch than Bowyer," said Ladislaw, indignantly, "but it seems as if the paltry fellows were always to turn the scale."†
Chpt 5
- She'll never again think me anything but a paltry pretence—too nice to take heaven except upon flattering conditions, and yet selling myself for any devil's change by the sly.†
Chpt 8
- Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(paltry) insignificant in amount or quality