All 6 Uses
paltry
in
Sons and Lovers
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- The collier's small, mean head, with its black hair slightly soiled with grey, lay on the bare arms, and the face, dirty and inflamed, with a fleshy nose and thin, paltry brows, was turned sideways, asleep with beer and weariness and nasty temper.†
Chpt 1.4
- There came over him a look of meanness and of paltriness.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- She wore a white blouse and navy skirt, and somehow, wherever she was, seemed to make things look paltry and insignificant.†
Chpt 2.9
- So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.†
Chpt 2.10
- His father, getting an old man, and lame from his accidents, was given a paltry, poor job.†
Chpt 2.10
- And now he looked paltry and insignificant.†
Chpt 2.14
Definitions:
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(1)
(paltry) insignificant in amount or quality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)