piker
Example Sentences
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Michael Bloomberg, another SPC, with his own media empire, makes Schultz look like a piker by comparison.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2019
But even he was a piker compared with wartime presidents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2014
The Rapture is a piker in this film; of its reported $16 million budget, roughly $15 million appears to have gone to Cage on a dare that he maintain a straight face.
From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 2, 2014
The dispiriting thing is that Jack Abramoff, in the wake of the financial lobbying of the last few years, looks like a piker.
From Salon • May 6, 2010
He stood still a minute, and almost turned white and then what do you think the piker did?
From Living Up to Billy by Cooper, Elizabeth
