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paltriness

/pawl-tree/US // ˈpɔl tri //UK // (ˈpɔːltrɪ) //

苍白,悸动,苍白无力,肥胖

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    pal·tri·er, pal·tri·est.

    • : ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
    • : utterly worthless.
    • : mean or contemptible: a paltry coward.

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Examples

  • 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.