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Definition
insignificant in amount or quality
- "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."Book 5 — The Dead Hand (76% in)
- "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."Book 5 — The Dead Hand (76% in)
- 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.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (48% in)
- Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (56% in)
There are no more uses of "paltry" in Middlemarch.
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