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Definition
insignificant in amount or quality
- My hopes of success, as I told him, were founded on this, that the then only newspaper, printed by Bradford, was a paltry thing, wretchedly manag'd, no way entertaining, and yet was profitable to him; I therefore thought a good paper would scarcely fail of good encouragement.
There are no more uses of "paltry" in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
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