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

I was red all over, what with shame and sorrow, but I marked that the paltriness seemed to have gone from John Pagan as soon as he began to talk of work.

From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Gibbon, Perceval