paltriness 的定义
pal·tri·er, pal·tri·est.
- ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- utterly worthless.
- mean or contemptible: a paltry coward.
paltriness 近义词
pettiness
paltriness 的近义词 3 个
更多paltriness例句
- The mail was very late this time: hence the paltriness of this note.
- He must see her as such a pigmy—how could he ever care for such paltriness?
- Yet, surely, the bitterest tragedies are those of which the central anguish is lost amid the dust of surrounding paltriness.
- The paltriness and vulgarity of these local broils and disaffections lend to his warning a more severe impressiveness.
- The opportunity of contrasting the paltriness of earth with the sublimity and reality of the unseen was too great to be resisted.