1. paltry - Adjective
3. paltry - Adjective Satellite
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. John Updike
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. Honoré de Balzac
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. William Cowper
For a paltry gift, little thanks. Latin Proverb