piker
Example Sentences
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I’m on only my 5,644th report, so I’m a mere piker.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Michael Bloomberg, another SPC, with his own media empire, makes Schultz look like a piker by comparison.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
The Rapture is a piker in this film; of its reported $16 million budget, roughly $15 million appears to have gone to Cage on a dare that he maintain a straight face.
From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 2, 2014
The dispiriting thing is that Jack Abramoff, in the wake of the financial lobbying of the last few years, looks like a piker.
From Salon ● May 6, 2010
This is the second time to-night you’ve run foul of my plans with your infernal diamonds and your piker hunts, and if trouble comes from this, look out for yourself!
From Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
