paltriness

IPA: pˈɔɫtrinʌs

Examples of "paltriness" in Sentences

This was not referring to the paltriness of the army.
Anything less shows paltriness and a lack of credibility.
Everyone is in dancer of succumbing to what de Tocqueville called “paltriness of aim.”
Amid the glories of Chartres he could not help thinking about the paltriness of his own time.
Continually get away from pettiness and paltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel.
It could be that the paltriness of color this year is purely due to too much moisture, mold, moisture-loving bugs, that sort of thing.
But to critics, that same proportional paltriness of what's gained make the abuses and errors suffered under the 287 (g) program even less justifiable: rough means to ultimately puny ends.