paltry

The year before I'd made a paltry third of that.

Sales on the day after the big night were paltry.

What we have seen is a paltry thing compared with what's to come.

The one chance of living more than the paltry few months your disease has given you.

"But what have I to do with such paltry things, my love?"

He rises again and makes everyone else seem kind of paltry.

His results with my paltry savings have made me very happy.

Eight paltry weeks on Mars, and then back home again.

When we set to a task there's nothing paltry or small about it.

She lives through all this, and she's looking for a few paltry cups?

Their compensation was paltry, if they received any at all.

They had read from the paltry choice of books in the Library.

She would have found his note, and the one paltry gift he could leave.

But he did not refer to growth, which has been paltry.

A man's life seems a very paltry thing amid the great forces of Nature.

A poor reason, paltry even, but enough, perhaps, to win a city.

A paltry performance at best, but it had the intended effect.

They drew a paltry 1,200 in a building that held 3,500.

That was paltry by later standards but useful at the time.

"For what I have told you the price is paltry.

Your paltry store of days you call life is spun out.

"Do you think I would concern myself with such a paltry sum?"

Or the effort I've put in has simply not been worth the paltry savings.

He would, in fact, have given her these paltry household items if she had asked.

In all, the running game accumulated a paltry 79 yards.