paltry

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It only runs a paltry ~80% of the web.

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Quick take

not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

adjective

contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paltry.

adjective

not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

adjective

contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

Example sentences

It only runs a paltry ~80% of the web.

For the more common N=3 it's a paltry 24804.

And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry.

This is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage.

The people put $465m into Tesla and their stake is worth nothing, after making a paltry $12m in interest.

I just learned that it was some language with interesting concepts, backed up with a paltry offering of examples.

Rather than mucking with the paltry Roth or Traditional IRA, the Simple IRA allows you to put a lot more cash into a retirement fund.

Either people are getting away with paltry amounts of jail time for pleading guilty, or they're being punished with long sentences for using their right to a trial.

Seriously - no one's forcing you to use PHP, so in your own worlds "It has paltry few redeeming qualities and I would prefer to forget it exists at all.

I wrote a series of small finite state machines, fully documented their use in the source code, and then replaced the entirety of all the portions of the source code I was in charge of with my miniscule finite state machines and their paltry data.

He/she will save you from making terrible mistakes like adopting the wrong corporate form, creating contracts that don't protect you and expose you to liability, signing off on contracts that you shouldn't...I could go on and on.$9,000 is a paltry sum relative to the risk that was averted by having a professional get things done right.