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Thesaurus: paltry

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.

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  1. superl. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
  2. adj. not worth considering
  3. adj. contemptibly small in amount
  4. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron. Syn. -- See Contemptible.
  5. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful;trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper.The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.
  6. j:100 s not worth considering s contemptibly small in amount