paltry

IPA: pˈɔɫtri

Examples of "paltry" in Sentences

Boston, which was once again paltry on the power play.
Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Small societies of excluded lepers live miserably in paltry huts.
And then, you whine and fret for what you yourself call a paltry matter!
The King County Council called their paltry recommendation a "political victory" for us.
As you know, of course, the U.S. being criticized for what some called a paltry and slow response to this humanitarian crisis.
I listened to Ebenezer Ato Sam aka Baby Ansaba on myjoyonline. com on 2nd February 2010 and I must say that he is an archetypal example of what gutter Accra are incensed over what they describe as paltry salaries and poor working conditions.
Haughty, proud, and uncompromising, though neither destitute of honor nor generosity, he despised and hated what he termed the paltry associations of herdsmen and shepherds, united with a few towns which subsisted chiefly by commerce; and instead of courting the Helvetian