0 A paltry amount of something, especially money, is very small. -- marny, nędzny
How do we explain all these paltry records?
The paltry amounts of crops and hedge-wood taken indicate that what was in most cases stolen was intended for immediate consumption rather than for resale.
Regional integration schemes among less developed countries have yielded paltry results largely because these economies are often only loosely connected to one another.
Without it the information reported here will look very paltry, but in fact in its context it does contribute to our knowledge of this chant.
Although they are rather paltry, given their position they must have contained the remains of honoured personages, probably rulers of the pre-imperial period.
What aggravated the problem of developing a genuine bureaucracy was the paltry level of salaries.
Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.
His old possessions seem paltry to him now.
