Both Uses of
paltry
in
Moby Dick
- For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Aye," lighting from the boat to the deck, "thus I trample on thee, thou paltry thing that feebly pointest on high; thus I split and destroy thee!"†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(paltry) insignificant in amount or quality