Usage examples for paltry
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But this, too, he resolutely refused, though at that time I was already so deeply in his debt that I could not repay him at all with paltry money." – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers
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Far different from the other chambers, the one into which the Rabbi was next introduced was a mean and paltry apartment without furniture. – Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Various
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I had retraced the little sequence of subsequent events, paltry enough in themselves, yet of a certain symmetry and some importance as a whole. – No Hero by E.W. Hornung