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paltry

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

微不足道,微不足道的,渺小,渺小的

Related Words

measly可怕的,卑微的,卑鄙的,小小的insignificant不重要的,无足轻重,无关紧要,微不足道的meager微薄的,微薄,微不足道,微不足道的miserable悲惨的,凄惨的,凄惨,悲惨的事pitiful可怜的人,可怜的,悲惨的,凄惨的trivial琐碎,琐碎的,琐事,小事一桩puny弱小的,弱小,矮小的,弱不禁风base基础,基地,基层,底层beggarly卑鄙的,乞丐式的,乞丐式,乞丐cheap廉价,廉价的,便宜的,便宜common常见的,普通,共同,共同的contemptible蔑视,轻蔑,鄙视,卑鄙despicable卑鄙,卑鄙的,卑鄙无耻,可鄙ineffectual不有效,不有效的,无效果,不有效用limited有限的,有限,有限性low低,低的,低位,低级mean意味着,是指,意思是说,意思是minor未成年,小型,小型的,未成年人narrow狭窄的,窄小的,缩小,窄小petty小气,小气的,小气鬼,琐碎

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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.poor; worthless
Synonyms
insignificant不重要的,无足轻重,无关紧要,微不足道的meager微薄的,微薄,微不足道,微不足道的measly可怕的,卑微的,卑鄙的,小小的miserable悲惨的,凄惨的,凄惨,悲惨的事pitiful可怜的人,可怜的,悲惨的,凄惨的puny弱小的,弱小,矮小的,弱不禁风trivial琐碎,琐碎的,琐事,小事一桩base基础,基地,基层,底层beggarly卑鄙的,乞丐式的,乞丐式,乞丐cheap廉价,廉价的,便宜的,便宜common常见的,普通,共同,共同的contemptible蔑视,轻蔑,鄙视,卑鄙derisory贬值,贬低,减损,减损的despicable卑鄙,卑鄙的,卑鄙无耻,可鄙inconsiderable微不足道,不足道,不足为奇,不足道的ineffectual不有效,不有效的,无效果,不有效用limited有限的,有限,有限性low低,低的,低位,低级low-down低调的,低调,低价,低端mean意味着,是指,意思是说,意思是minor未成年,小型,小型的,未成年人narrow狭窄的,窄小的,缩小,窄小petty小气,小气的,小气鬼,琐碎picayune野餐,皮卡伊恩,皮亚杰,皮卡丘piddling琐碎的,琐碎,琐事,琐碎的事情set设置,一组,一套,集shabby寒酸,寒酸的,破烂不堪,褴褛的shoddy劣质,劣质品,劣质的,蹩脚的sleazy懒散的,偷懒,懒惰的,懒散slight纤细的,纤细,纤弱的,纤微small小,小型,小的,小型的sorry对不起,抱歉,遗憾的是trashy龌龊的,龌龊,庸俗,俗气trifling琐碎的,琐碎,琐碎的事,琐事unconsequential无关紧要的,无关紧要,无关紧要的事,无意义的unimportant不重要,不重要的,不要紧,不关痛痒vile卑鄙,卑鄙的,卑劣,卑鄙无耻wretched凄惨的,惨不忍睹,惨不忍睹的,凄惨

Examples

  • During the ten minutes it was plugged in, the Mach-E only added a paltry 5 kWh.

  • The United States gained back a paltry 49,000 jobs in January.

  • The economy only grew by a paltry 1 percent in the last last three months of 2020, according to last week’s Bureau of Economic Analysis figures.

  • As articulate and attractive young adults, all three participants meet the basic requirements for influencer status, despite their initially paltry follower counts.

  • The paltry nature of expected per-person payments was explained last week by plaintiffs in a filing that asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to approve the settlement.

  • In all these elections, it was the suburbs—not paltry gains in the cities—that made the difference.

  • Also shown are the (paltry) sums spent by each organization on candidates and campaigns.

  • Salem the prep school kid felt so slighted by a paltry $3 million bonus in 2011 that he left the firm.

  • Well, there was nothing paltry about Obamacare or rescuing the country from an oncoming depression.

  • In his first season as owner of the San Diego Clippers, the team drew a paltry 4,344 fans a game.

  • What are a few paltry, lumps of crystallised carbon compared to a galaxy of a million million suns?

  • Nothing can be more juvenile or paltry than the works of the native Belgians here exhibited.

  • The present Great Mogul has so little taste, that he has had this divan divided into two parts by a very paltry partition wall.

  • Unfortunately for the acquisition of paltry news, it was Um-ko, not Mata, who came out to purchase.

  • Yet those would sound like paltry excuses after a six months' expedition to Paris.

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