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paltry 音标拼音: [p'ɔltri] a. 不足取的,琐碎的 不足取的,琐碎的 paltry adj 1: not worth considering; " he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; " piffling efforts"; " a trifling matter" [ synonym: { negligible}, { paltry}, { trifling}] 2: contemptibly small in amount; " a measly tip"; " the company donated a miserable $ 100 for flood relief"; " a paltry wage"; " almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" [ synonym: { measly}, { miserable}, { paltry}] paltry \ pal" try\ ( p[ add] l" tr[ y^]), a. [ Compar. { Paltrier} ( p[ add] l" tr[ i^]*[~ e] r); superl. { Paltriest}.] [ Cf. Prov. E. paltry refuse, rubbish, LG. palterig ragged, palte, palter, a rag, a tatter, Dan. pialt, Sw. palta, pl. paltor.] Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Contemptible}. [ 1913 Webster] 148 Moby Thesaurus words for " paltry": Lenten, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, austere, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, borne, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dwarfed, dwarfish, execrable, exiguous, flagrant, foul, fourth- class, frugal, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, heinous, illiberal, impoverished, inconsequential, inconsiderable, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, irregular, jejune, lean, limited, little, low, low- class, low- down, low- grade, low- quality, low- test, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, mingy, miserable, miserly, monstrous, narrow, nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious, odious, parsimonious, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk, puny, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second- best, second- class, seedy, set, shabby, shoddy, skimp, skimpy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, sorry, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, tacky, tatty, thin, third- class, third- rate, tinny, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, two- for- a- cent, two- for- a- penny, twopenny, twopenny- halfpenny, unchivalrous, ungenerous, unimportant, unmentionable, unnourishing, unnutritious, valueless, vile, watered, watery, worthless, wretched
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