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Paltry synonyms

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small
Narrow in outlook; petty:
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  1. Narrow in outlook; petty:
  2. Having been belittled; humiliated:
  3. Being below average in quantity or extent:
insignificant
Not significant, especially:
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  1. Not significant, especially:
  2. Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.
  3. Small; unimposing
trifling
Idle or frivolous
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  1. Idle or frivolous
  2. That trifles; frivolous; shallow; fickle
  3. Of little worth or importance.
piddling
So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration.
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  1. So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration.
  2. Insignificant; trifling; petty
  3. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
Find another word for paltry. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for paltry, like: small, insignificant, trifling, piddling, trivial and unimportant.

Sentence Examples

  • Human griefs seem little worth assuaging; human happiness too paltry (at the best) to be worth increasing.

  • So was Merrill Cooms who told us his investment was paltry compared to getting, as he called him, "that monster Cummings."

  • To a new generation they seemed paltry, earthly and fantastic, and far-seeing men had good reason to regard them as a source of political danger.

  • When Lord John Russell brought forward his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, Bright opposed it as "a little, paltry, miserable measure," and foretold its failure.

  • When a river partakes of the nature of a torrent, dwindling to a paltry stream at one season and swelling into an enormous flood at another, it is impossible to construct a system of irrigation canals without very costly engineering works, sluices, dams, waste-weirs, &c., so as to give the engineer entire control of the water.

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