A paltry amount is so small it's not even worth thinking about. In the novel "Oliver Twist," when Oliver is given a paltry amount of gruel not nearly enough he asks, "Please, sir, can I have some more?"
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling;
Adjective S.
contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
Adjective S.
not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
superl.
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible;
pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
Paltry
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling;
Usage Examples
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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