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.
So mean, petty paltry as to deserve contempt.
These politic enclosures for paltry mutton, makes more rebellion in the flesh, than all the provocative electuaries doctors have uttered since last jubilee. The White Devil
It still represents a paltry amount to live on, but is nevertheless something which should have been done a long time ago.
Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago --- for certainly our Catholic Faith has the advantage of antiquity at least. '' Rob Roy
Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
Other people prosper and grow rich, and hold their paltry names high and dry above shame. North and South
Less than a year behind bars is a paltry penalty for such a casual disregard for life. The Sun
Interviewing Manny the lobsterman, a 30-year-old college grad with a paltry paycheck, helped clinch that argument.
Until two years ago, we had resources so paltry that it amounted to criminal negligence.
It is that intrinsic value that matters, not any paltry contribution they might make to the national economy. Times, Sunday Times
The poor painter sold his paintings for a paltry sum of money.
Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
As soon as the Castilians came in sight, the Tlascalans set up their yell of defiance, rising high above the wild barbaric minstrelsy of shell, atabal, and trumpet, with which they proclaimed their triumphant anticipations of victory over the paltry forces of the invaders. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
Then we get this paltry, pathetic excuse for a bill, and we are all supposed to become excited about it.
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
The paltry spread between Earning Assets and Interest-bearing Liabilities contracted another 5 basis points to 24 basis points.
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
It was a world-penance for a world to see, and paltry indeed it made appear that earlier penance, barefooted in the snow, of an emperor to a pope for daring to squabble over temporal power. Goliah
When someone offered him a paltry amount to take the business off his hands, however, Hughes realised he was not about to give up that easily.
With commitment and amounts of cash that seemed paltry when compared with government defence budgets, that problem could be solved.
Yet by the standards of current advertising and sponsorship the sums involved and the use made of sport by advertisers was paltry.
But the paltry amount of snow here is a relief compared to the four-foot snowfalls we'd receive at least five times a year in Montreal.
For my part I want when I go to my home -- when I turn from the arena where man contends with man for what we call the prizes of this paltry world -- I want to go back, not to be received in the masculine embrace of some female ward politician, but to the earnest, loving look and touch of a true woman. Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887
In 1861, the two women had staged a fundraiser that netted the paltry sum of $675.
Fining Allwn a paltry £2,000 instead of gaoling him, Judge Bertrand Richards observed: ‘The victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence.’
Over the past few years sales have rocketed, as people look for a safe home for their investments in the face of turbulent stock markets and paltry interest rates.
The paltry gain contrasted with a 23 percent revenue increase at Google Inc., which competes against Yahoo for online advertisers. Yahoo Profit Doubles, Revenue Still Lags
WHAT is the point of paltry sentences given to benefits fraudsters? The Sun
I think; perhaps _ape_hood rather, -- paltry imitancy, from the teeth outward, of what our heart never felt nor our understanding ever saw; dim indolent adherence to extraneous and extinct traditions; traditions now really about extinct; not living now to almost any of us, and still haunting with their spectralities and gibbering _ghosts_ (in a truly baleful manner) almost all of us! Latter-Day Pamphlets
Lady Delacour was immediately ambitious to outshine her in equipage; and it was this paltry ambition that made her condescend to all the meanness of the transaction by which she obtained Miss Portman's draft, and Clarence Hervey's two hundred guineas. Belinda
The loss of such a paltry amount on its own wouldn't have much impact on the oil market, experts say.
That allows the vast increase in % of income to outweight the paltry giving for the previous five years (before he started running for president) to arrive at a more than respectable 3.85%. Clintons Release 2000-2006 Returns: Earned $110 Million, Paid $33 Million In Taxes
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
Still, as paltry as the pay-offs were, the scandal exposed the hollowness of the ruling party's nationalist rhetoric.
Not only is the monetary compensation being offered by the government a paltry amount, but inflation will erode its value over time.
With a puny drive and paltry track record, he has only accuracy off the tee to commend him, but it has not prevented the galleries accepting him as one of their own.
The first period totalled up a paltry amount of three genuine opportunities.
The first period totalled up a paltry amount of three genuine opportunities.
I complained about this paltry amount but have not had a reply. Times, Sunday Times
During the late troubles, the treasures of the state, and even the furniture of the palace, had been alienated or embezzled; the royal banquet was served in pewter or earthenware; and such was the proud poverty of the times, that the absence of gold and jewels was supplied by the paltry artifices of glass and gilt-leather. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
Although Judas double-crossed his best friend for a paltry sum, some scholars argue that Judas is the secret hero of Christianity. Mental_floss Blog » 2010 » February
Whatever the lying word or disgraceful deed, you are always left with the feeling that something so paltry, so pointlessly tawdry, must lead to a larger scandal.
Fewer still would do so if they had to give up to eight hours of their time for such a paltry return. The Times Literary Supplement
And, looking at the paltry haul in their nets and at their discarded small fish, they know it is a way of life their sons will not share with them.
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
While America is being purposely distracted by Bush's puny, paltry and poor-spirited "War on Terror" and Noah is out shopping for Gucci knock-offs at Target instead of keeping an eye on the ark, our country is being left defenseless, unprotected and without lifeboats while the biggest Flood ever is rapidly heading our way. Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat & Crowded": Replacing the "War on Terror" with a "War on Global Warming"?
The burglar had probably heard she had been saving for years from her paltry weekly income, to leave something for her grandchildren.
We are firmly against the forcible acquisition for our land at paltry compensation rates.
They know that the nation's supposedly strict privacy laws are no deterrent, when paltry fines are more than paid for by boosted sales. The Sun
It's easy money with a paltry sentence if they get caught. The Sun
He accused the download service of bleeding musicians dry by giving them a paltry cut of what it sells. The Sun
About 190,000 applicants were without places by this weekend as the scramble for the paltry number still available through clearing intensified. Times, Sunday Times
You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history. Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies
Less than a year behind bars is a paltry penalty for such a casual disregard for life. The Sun
There always has to be somebody in the tent to prevent thieves from taking the paltry property they have left.
He accused the download service of bleeding musicians dry by giving them a paltry cut of what it sells. The Sun
So instead of the pretty 60MB file I had in MPEG-2 format, they got sent to them a paltry 8. 5MB file in WMV format. "Sorry, Patrick, but you're up against Wheel of Fortune."
It is that intrinsic value that matters, not any paltry contribution they might make to the national economy. Times, Sunday Times
You believe in the way human beings talk about the unknowable, reach for the unattainable, pattern their imperfect lives and offer their paltry best up to the beingless being that created the universe and powers its continuation. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
The words that the verses of the Qur'an should not be sold for a paltry price do not mean that they can be sold if they fetch a high price.
That night besides the paltry purse, the other thing that was at stake was the Kentucky Heavyweight Championship.
This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.
Other assets, such as land and shares, remain at paltry levels compared with their bubble - era peaks.
This means they are reducing their interest payments, and the tax-free savings they make will far exceed the paltry returns that savings accounts offer at present. Times, Sunday Times
A halt was called for lunch under a blue pine, where we quickly discovered how paltry its shade is in comparison with the generous screen cast by a chenar; scarcely has the heated traveller picked out a seemingly umbrageous spot to recline upon when, lo! A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Yeats had his own solution: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, /A tattered coat upon a stick, unless /Soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress. Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
So spending a “paltry” $64.3 million on their opening ceremonies is like taking a twonie from every Canuck from here to Fredricton. 2008 August 12 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
The current amount of $12,000 is a miserly and paltry amount that I strongly believe should be much higher.
The returns on cash on deposit are paltry; the returns on printers of cash are somewhat better. Times, Sunday Times
Last year trade between China and Russia amounted to a paltry $5.7 billion.
The paltry 34 billion that the “American Auto makers” need to stay afloat is nothing compared to the seven trillion we have spent covering the bankers bets. Obama Praises Efforts by Besieged Automakers - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
We lived our lives by local train timings and paltry pay packets.
He argued that "there's a better deal out there to be had," and cited "the paltry Internet move over residual" and the "larcenous" force majeure settlement as reasons. Jonathan Handel: SAG-AFTRA Ratify Advertising Agreement; SAG Townhall Features Fireworks
Her eight-year jail sentence seems paltry. The Sun
This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.
Yes, turnover is paltry, and trading in too many stocks is so illiquid that investors are effectively locked in. Times, Sunday Times
A disciple of Kent had the cruelty to render this splendid old mansion (the more modern part of which was the work of Inigo Jones) more _parkish_, as he was pleased to call it; to raze all those exterior defences, and bring his mean and paltry gravel-walk up to the very door from which, deluded by the name, one might have imagined Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
There is some insurance available, although the amount of coverage is paltry.
Basic GSM phones send and receive data at a paltry 9.6 kilobits per second (kbps).
At night he sleeps in warehouses or under trees, no doubt worrying how he will manage to feed his children on such a paltry sum.
If the government wins, it will fuel the mounting disquiet over the relatively paltry payments some soldiers are receiving for lifelong injuries. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps, but what else besides idealism, belief in humanity's potential for good, would keep anyone in a business with such a paltry reward system?
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
But soon we drew out of the hot sunshine into the old orchard with its paltry display of deformed, green, runt apples, and its magnificent columns and canopies of poison ivy -- that most beautiful and least amiable of our indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in the sand at the bottom. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
Coffee exports had stuck at a paltry three million bags annually.
There he goes for a troublesome mischief-making tool," said Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago -- for certainly our Catholic Rob Roy — Volume 01
Paltry fuel efficiency increases should allow for a few more years of SUV inflation.
Less than a year behind bars is a paltry penalty for such a casual disregard for life. The Sun
And so, favoured child of the sun, out of munificence of energy and sheer joy of living, he, the man of many millions, forbore on his far way to play the game with Harrison J. Griffiths for a paltry sum. A SON OF THE SUN
They have taken a paltry two points from their opening three games and only goal difference is keeping them above the relegation zone. The Sun
Why is such a paltry sum given? The Sun
Military figures say these sums are paltry. Times, Sunday Times
But the paltry amount of snow here is a relief compared to the four-foot snowfalls we'd receive at least five times a year in Montreal.
Equally appalling is the ineptitude of the industry watchdogs and the paltry penalty which they have dished out. The Sun
God, master fool, if you do not let me alone, or that you will presume to vex me any more, you shall receive from the best hand I have a mask wherewith to cover your rascally scroundrel face, you paltry shitten varlet. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The 500,000th signature, appropriately, was from a Nebraskan, pointing out that the only independent study of the pipeline that would bisect her state showed it would yield a paltry 1400 temporary jobs, not the bonanza big oil keeps promising. Bill McKibben: Over 600,000 Messages Against Keystone XL Flood the Senate
There are two 1.5 watt speakers built in and the unit draws a paltry 20 watts of power.
This is not some paltry wrangle over party funding. The Sun
Other people prosper and grow rich, and hold their paltry names high and dry above shame. North and South
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars. CHAPTER XIX
o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
a paltry wage
So mean , petty , or paltry as to deserve contempt.
The only concessions remained limited to some paltry oversight additions.
They want to take the music channels to the court for paying paltry amounts for playing their music.
This paltry amount isn't even enough to heat a cup of coffee, let alone travel to another planet.
he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
The brutally healthy boy contemns the female sex because he sees it incapable of his own athletic sports, but Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns, -- their paltry prepossessions, their vulgar sequaciousness, their invincible ignorance, their absorption in a petty self. Born in Exile
Now that CNN has canceled a primary debate, ill-informed Republicans will have to base their votes on a paltry 50,325,623 debates. HUFFPOST HILL - Republicans Demand Urine
This paltry bit extra will soon be used up once the council tax bill arrives.
The banksia is a paltry tree, about the size of an apple-tree in an English or French orchard, perfectly useless as timber, but affording an inexhaustible supply of firewood. The Bushman — Life in a New Country
Leaving pensioners who rely solely on the state pension with such a paltry sum hardly chimes with the government's pledge to care for the vulnerable.
the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature.
Tsao said,'such paltry faith wins no trust , the gods will not bless you .
Voluntary charging deterred the poor and raised paltry sums. Times, Sunday Times
She made some paltry excuse and left.
the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature.
‘And you have parted with the Colt, and brought us back nothing but a groce of green paltry spectacles!’ — ‘Dear mother,’ cried the boy, The Vicar of Wakefield
This was done at his return from the little paltry town, even then when Master Antitus of Cressplots was licentiated, and had passed his degrees in all dullery and blockishness, according to this sentence of the canonists, Beati Dunces, quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2
The paltry sum of Raith's first-half efforts amounted to one shot off target and a corner kick.
This is one flesh film that's a tad skimpy on the skinny dip and paltry on the peek-a-boo.
He said the 10,433 drink driving detections by Gardaí last year was paltry compared to 200,000 speeding offences detected.
It was a paltry, pallid return. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, it is estimated that one anti-personnel landmine can be bought at a paltry US $3, yet it costs up to US $1,000 to clear a single landmine.
It's bold of me to challenge our learned scholars as my paltry mathematics training finished in year 11.
See if it changes your paltry lives in the slightest to send him packing back to his richly opiated Irish mistress!
A third are either let off with a conditional discharge or given a paltry fine. The Sun
Though the battle of wills between the two of them is the focus of the film, it generates a paltry amount of drama.
The company offered Jeremy a paltry sum which he refused.
What would I need with your paltry glory?
Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars. CHAPTER XIX
Your savings account is probably earning something paltry like 1.something%. Stop Living Paycheck To Paycheck - The Consumerist
Why have the most expensive professionals in the game achieved such paltry results?
His "beau language" is mere slipslop; he mistakes the meaning of his original a thousand times; and by way, no doubt, of "accommodating it to the taste of the age," he patches it with paltry scraps from the common repertory of the "fast school" of his day. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
Perhaps you would like to see a little bit of legerdemain, or a paltry amount of prestidigitation, or a conundrum of conjuring.
Far more than in the past, companies are using their paltry salary pools to reward stars with relatively meaty raises.
So too in the case of flattery we must observe and be on our guard against wastefulness being called liberality, and cowardliness prudence, and madness quick-wittedness, and meanness frugality, and the amorous man called social and affectionate, and the term manly applied to the passionate and vain man, and the term civil applied to the paltry and mean man. Plutarch's Morals
It is unlikely that the politicians and leaders of the area would empathize with the plight of Sabitri and other such women or children being held at ransom for a paltry sum of money borrowed by labourers.
Increasing the vast stock of carbon dioxide in the ocean by one percent reduces the relatively paltry amount in the atmosphere by half. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Players should not have to sell their marketing rights for paltry sums.
But the question to pose is, how far can one go using his or her own paltry resources in these hard economic times?
Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 2. 7 percent.
But the daily quota of three litres is a paltry amount in a city as huge as Tehran which has poor public transport. Times, Sunday Times
He was fined a paltry 5,000 by the organisers. The Sun
Interviewing Manny the lobsterman, a 30-year-old college grad with a paltry paycheck, helped clinch that argument.
The world is cruel and rancid, the body is a receptacle of foul gasses and inconstant emotions, and the soul is a paltry fiction.
He said he had no choice but to give him the paltry sentence after the case took 18 months to get to court. The Sun
But it's still going to be paltry amounts whichever way you slice it.
And they have managed a paltry four points from 20 top-flight away games since then. The Sun
The building is like that of Kuba, only smaller: and the hypostyle is hung with oil lamps and ostrich eggs, the usual paltry furniture of an Arab mausoleum. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Well, then, do not be angry with them; for are they not as good as a play, trying their hand at paltry reforms such as I was describing; they are always fancying that by legislation they will make an end of frauds in contracts, and the other rascalities which The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
This is not some paltry wrangle over party funding. The Sun
There was no indication that these paltry and tardy gestures have had any effect in dampening the mass protest movement.
Instead a whole load of hard workers cleaned up and got paid a paltry sum. The Sun
London, once one of the top two, has slumped to No 27 with a paltry 7.7m souls.
There's old Dick over in that bed there; he used to go 'mumping,' and when he got boosey with too much lush he stole some paltry thing or other, and being so often convicted they have 'legged' [12] him at last. Six Years in the Prisons of England
He was our coachman, and my father once had him arrested, on account of some paltry offence, for twenty-four hours.
Equally appalling is the ineptitude of the industry watchdogs and the paltry penalty which they have dished out. The Sun
There is no justice in a paltry little sentence. The Sun
This month, Cosmos's 1 750 staff turned up at the shuttered factory to be paid a paltry 45 000 ariary (€15), half their monthly salary, sparking anger among those who had expected more money. Guardian Online
The burglars he caught stealing from him received paltry 75 fines. The Sun
A paltry 12,000 paid to watch the dispiriting sight.
He described the 12.7m that will go towards education programmes as a paltry amount.
I suspect such a dangerously overimaginative and overreactive, worlds-within-worlds (in one's paltry, overheated head), atmosphere was rife in nuclear-war circles in the early 'sixties, and responsible for placing all of us in the gravest of dangers. The Worst Form of Paranoia

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