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

Although Lindsey soon found himself out of a job as a result, he turned out to be a piker.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2010

In other words," observed the Reverend Dr. Sanford, "when it came to the rough stuff Philip was no piker!

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick