palter
Example Sentences
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So far, milder summer temperatures have spared him from the prospect of even paltrier yields.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2014
He must maintain appearances in keeping with his associations—or drop downscale to meaner opportunities and paltrier prizes.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
If one of the meanest of human conditions is conscious heroism, paltrier yet is heroism before the fact, incapable of self realization!
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George
The design is the same in both, the proportions also; but the one is a chimney, the other a paltry model of a paltrier edifice.
From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John
Ah! what a contrast there is between the languid way in which Christian men pursue what the Bible designates their 'calling' and that in which men with far paltrier aims pursue theirs!
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing palter
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 5
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