paltriness

Example Sentences

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He suggests that this may be because it offers inconvenient truths about the paltriness of the party.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

The report includes an understated, but nonetheless pointed, criticism of the paltriness of scientific literature about North Pacific odontocetes species from the Oligocene epoch, which lasted roughly from 33.7 to 23.8 million years ago.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

In a year in which the two marquee Tony categories resemble each other in the paltriness of their competition, a critic is permitted to do some hand-wringing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2018

He was outspoken in meetings and confident in his value, arguing with Moyer once over the paltriness of his pay raise.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2015

This will perhaps seem too much to many people, who are inclined to call our generation wretched and paltry, as though they had some inner knowledge of the magnificence or the paltriness of generations gone.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan