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

"And if I did buy them from you at ten thousand, or a hundred thousand, you would be only a piker of a robber, as compared to me."

From Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)