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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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They couldn't leave even the most paltry objects alone.† (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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It's a paltry amount of power, compared to what the rover consumes, but it's not nothing.† (source)
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I had eleven carries for forty-seven yards, and my longest run was a paltry eight yards.† (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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He feels a little paltry for having pawned Morgana's drivel off on the Crakers as cosmogony.† (source)
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There came over him a look of meanness and of paltriness.† (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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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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The price tag of twenty million euro was paltry when compared with the prize of obtaining the Grail, and with the Vatican's separation payment to Opus Dei, the finances had worked nicely.† (source)
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And as night falls, Werner pulls little Jutta wordlessly back through the close-set neighborhoods of Zollverein, two snowy-haired children in a bottomland of soot, bearing their paltry treasures to Viktoriastrasse 3, where Frau Elena stares into the coal stove, singing a French lullaby in a tired voice, one toddler yanking her apron strings while another howls in her arms.† (source)
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I went through the laundry basket in the bathroom, managing to raise a paltry quarter load of washing, and spent some minutes checking the instructions to the machine.† (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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