paltry
Example Sentences
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It says those incentives help attract users and give consumers more choices in a world with paltry checking account interest rates.
Another local, Gilberto Herrera, 67, works as a public employee and earns a paltry salary of less than one dollar a month.
From Barron's
In the lower Colorado River region, which contributes minimal runoff to the river, the snowpack is now a paltry 32% of average for this time of year.
From Los Angeles Times
Nearly all of the country’s paltry output in recent years had ultimately flowed there in largely black-market purchases, at a steep discount to global prices.
“The paltry percentage of the total that these men will realize, especially in light of the hundreds of millions of dollars of professional fees that have resulted from this bankruptcy, is beyond tragic.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
