paltry

How To Use paltry In A Sentence

• Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
• It is a paltry return compared to the 34 he notched up in total last year. The Sun
• At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer. Balkinization
• The council says the reason it has had to make cuts is because it has received a paltry amount of grant from the Government.
• Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
• There is some insurance available, although the amount of coverage is paltry.
• He hadn't been able to work since, and the family subsisted on Social Security disability and Rhonda's paltry earnings as a free-lance editor. Whiplash
• He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
• Sixpennyworth," I said, feeling suddenly that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather paltry. The Sunny Side
• The economic growth rate for next year has slipped further and further as the year goes on, with the latest prediction from the government's top think tank readjusting the figure to a paltry 2.6 percent.