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
In California’s 39th District, it makes her a piker.
From Slate ● May 31, 2018
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
"A fellow can't be a piker, Bill," he said, with the air of a profligate young millionaire escapading in the columns of the press.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
