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• s  inferior in strength or significance
  a puny physique
  puny excuses
• s  (used especially of persons) of inferior size

• Unfortunately, our puny human brains aren't particularly up to the task.
• Son of an immigrant Jewish tailor who settled in Manhattan's hurly-burly Hell's Kitchen, puny little Yussel Jacobs had to live by his wits to defend himself against his tough .
• He'll have waited a long time, at least in puny human terms.

• runty
• shrimpy

News & Articles

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• Business-friendly state
  Re the June 4 article Work-related deaths increase in 2012: OSHA wasn’t doing the job of inspecting even before the sequester. It would take its inspectors more than 200 years to visit every private workplace in Florida. And, they don’t inspect at all, they react after the fact and impose puny fines.
  June 6, 2013 - Miami Herald

Quotes

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• Charles Grassley in BusinessWeek
  The House package is puny,said Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.
• Gale Anne Hurd in International Herald Tribune
  There's a sense of wish-fulfillment,says Gale Anne Hurd, a producer on Lee's "Hulk" and the new movie. "If you are just a puny human and someone treats you unfairly, you can hulk out and then go back to being a puny human, and you have...
• Ronnie Earle in Dallas Morning News (registration)
  The effect of this decision is to create a separate class of felonies that are indeed 'puny, half-pint' felonies, somewhat different, perhaps less serious and less worthy of diligent enforcement, than the felonies defined in the penal code,...