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• s  not worth considering
  he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
• s  contemptibly small in amount
  a paltry wage

• She bought the house at a princely sum but was forced to sell it at a paltry sum when the subprime crisis hit the finance sector.
• In a chump-change Tasmanian tune-up for the Australian Open earlier this year, Williams, then ranked a paltry 94th in the world, fell to an Austrian named Sybille Bammer in a .
• At most, Jobs is left with a dime per track, so even $500 million in annual sales would add up to a paltry $50 million profit.

• negligible
• trifling
• measly
• miserable

News & Articles

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• Paltry turnout likely for Va. primary
  With the major party gubernatorial choices for this fall settled, a paltry turnout is expected Tuesday as Virginia Democrats pick their down-ballot nominees and nominations are decided for 11 contested House of Delegates seats.
  June 11, 2013 - FOX 43 TV Hampton Roads
• In Obscure Off-Year Primary, Paltry Turnout Likely
  With the major party gubernatorial choices for this fall settled, a paltry turnout is expected Tuesday as Virginia Democrats pick their down-ballot nominees and nominations are decided for 11 contested House of Delegates seats.
  June 11, 2013 - WHSV Harrisonburg
• In obscure off-year primary, paltry turnout likely in Va.
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- With the major party gubernatorial choices for this fall settled, a paltry turnout is expected Tuesday as Virginia Democrats pick their down-ballot nominees and nominations are decided
  June 11, 2013 - WVVA Bluefield

Quotes

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• Franz Beckenbauer in BBC Sport
  England's first two appearances at the World Cup were paltry, but they improved against Slovenia,Beckenbauer, who won the tournament as a player and a coach, told German newspaper Bild. "What makes them dangerous is that their key players...
• Tommy Raudonikis in The Canberra Times
  The camp won't be happy with Bruno bringing them back for something as paltry as getting drunk on your birthday,said Raudonikis. "It's going to be a hard year for them. I don't think they'll make the top eight."
• Barack Obama in Washington Post (blog)
  And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom,Obama said as he reminded us of the extraordinary efforts that put an American on the moon and produced enough airplanes and tanks during World...