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.
