Voorbeelden van puny

• Demographic decline from disease made any colonisation policy look puny.

• When we consider those things, how puny and fantastic it is to think that this loan can hope to save the country at all.

• Compared to the national debt, local authority debt is puny.

• It will be a puny, unimpressive, and ineffective air force.

• To do that in pursuit of savings which, in terms of global expenditure, are puny, shames us.

• That is a puny way of recognising past service.

• It was described in another place as rather a puny instrument.

• In this puny little measure they have decided to reduce the number of doctors overall and to introduce 12 nurses—although people disagree about this number.