puny

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Puny and pathetic as Colin appears, he begins to seem like the braver of the two.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Puny mountains would have slowed erosion of the planet’s rocks, limiting the supply of life-giving nutrients for creatures in the oceans.

From National Geographic • Feb. 11, 2021

In “All My Puny Sorrows,” Marj is Elfrieda Von Riesen, a celebrated classical pianist, and Toews is Yoli, a young-adult writer who is struggling to finish a literary novel.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Not to mention the shabby way he treated the loyal Bob Hobbitt, whose ailing little son, Puny Pete, longed to leave life as a cabin boy for a career as a seamstress.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

Puny rivulets where they begin, these watercourses cut deeper as they run on, until, at the river, they become impassable gulches.

From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Drake, Samuel Adams