All 3 Uses of
paltry
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- If he has a friend here, he will save him the disgrace of the paltry attempt to conceal his name—and utterly useless one—for I will find it out, nor leave him until I have.'†
Chpt 32 *
- Do you think you bring your paltry money here as a favour or a gift; or as a matter of business, and in return for value received?†
Chpt 46
- Grant that I had doubled it—made cent. per cent.—for every sovereign told another—there would not be one piece of money in all the heap which wouldn't represent ten thousand mean and paltry lies, told, not by the money-lender, oh no! but by the money-borrowers, your liberal, thoughtless, generous, dashing folks, who wouldn't be so mean as save a sixpence for the world!'†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(paltry) insignificant in amount or quality