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US
/ˈpjuni/
]
[ UK /pjˈuːni/ ]
[ UK /pjˈuːni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
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inferior in strength or significance
puny excuses
a puny physique
How To Use puny In A Sentence
- I filled him up with tarry spunyarn, nailed sheet copper round him, bent some parts in the fire; and we are paying-in without more trouble now. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
- Surely, as this puny, completely drunk man lay on top of that poor child, any one of them could have yanked him off?
- All the youngsters look terribly puny, as if they need to sign up for a bodybuilding course.
- Acerbic performance practices and pinched, puny instrumentation made these works seem severe.
- I'll have to shoot a deer at Thanksgiving with my 338 from stem to stern to see if I can get the bullet back, and show you guys that the big X bullets are expanding, even in puny deer. The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
- But such a weak, puny, wailing princelet as he was! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
- Don't pit your puny wit against my massive intelligence.
- Sama halnya seperti jika kalian mempunyai satu termos air jeruk segar, maka kalian tidak akan menuangkannya ke dalam gelas yang kotor untuk meminumnya, ya kan? Planet Terasi
- The period in force is to be for the duration necessary forOUR military of all OUR nations to depose the puny yes-men'encharged 'with our military' chains of command 'to carry out the orders ofthe puppets put in position to rule all our countries for the benefit of the international vermin who install and pay them and thus exercise their tyranny over us all. ATTENTION! WE DEMAND MARTIAL LAW!
- Of the hands forward, some of the watch were aloft, working at odd jobs about the rigging, while the drowsy clinking of a spunyarn winch somewhere on the forecastle, in the shadow of the head sails, accounted for the remainder. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"