Sample Sentences forpaltry (editor-reviewed)
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She was frustrated by the paltry raise she got after a year of growing on the job.paltry = insignificant
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They offered her a paltry amount for the rare book, hoping she didn’t know its real value.
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A paltry treasure you could carry on a shoulder? (source)paltry = insignificant in amount or quality
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It made our jar of molasses seem rather paltry.† (source)
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They couldn't leave even the most paltry objects alone.† (source)
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The paltry magic of your statue cannot contain me.† (source)
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It's a paltry amount of power, compared to what the rover consumes, but it's not nothing.† (source)
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All this torture, all this pressing need, all these glimpses into the paltriness and worthlessness of my own self, the frightful dread lest I succumb, and the fear of death.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I'd soon be cutting into my paltry stash of U.S. dollars.† (source)
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There came over him a look of meanness and of paltriness.† (source)
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"Just because you're a paltry few billion years—" Mrs Whatsit was starting indignantly, when a sharp, strange voice cut in.† (source)
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He desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into artificial oyster beds.† (source)
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Hated him for being young, for being excellent, for having made their victories look paltry and weak.† (source)
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There was no way an eighty-six-year-old man could have stopped them from getting away with their paltry loot.† (source)
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She apologized for the bottle of wine—a cheap red from California— and they had a good laugh over the paltry selections in the local liquor stores.† (source)
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A man answered, "Well, he was walking all the way from Grand Rapids to Flint, it looks like he provided a pretty paltry meal for every mosquito on the way."† (source)
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