All 5 Uses
paltry
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- She was as angry as the river, repelled by his pettiness and pedantry, his flight from the furious truth of the place to the name of a paltry trickle.†
Chpt 4 *
- He had not meant to get into legal collection: all the force of his past, all the force of his personal kindness, stood against the paltry business of debtor chasing.†
Chpt 8
- He struggled to clear the images out of his brain, but against the undertow of his weariness his effort was paltry.†
Chpt 9
- The mare breathed deep and sighed, letting her back sag, infinitely weary of all man's paltry machinations, and Ben Hodge, servant of sunlit visions, whose heart was set on holiness—like the girl in the story his father told, who threw roses in the air—was silent.†
Chpt 15
- It all seemed to Clumly a foolish waste of mind, these paltry illusions, magic tricks.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(paltry) insignificant in amount or quality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)