paltry

In all these elections, it was the suburbs—not paltry gains in the cities—that made the difference.

Also shown are the (paltry) sums spent by each organization on candidates and campaigns.

Salem the prep school kid felt so slighted by a paltry $3 million bonus in 2011 that he left the firm.

Well, there was nothing paltry about Obamacare or rescuing the country from an oncoming depression.

In his first season as owner of the San Diego Clippers, the team drew a paltry 4,344 fans a game.

What are a few paltry, lumps of crystallised carbon compared to a galaxy of a million million suns?

Nothing can be more juvenile or paltry than the works of the native Belgians here exhibited.

The present Great Mogul has so little taste, that he has had this divan divided into two parts by a very paltry partition wall.

Unfortunately for the acquisition of paltry news, it was Um-ko, not Mata, who came out to purchase.

Yet those would sound like paltry excuses after a six months' expedition to Paris.