paltry

/pawl-tree/US // ˈpɔl tri //UK // (ˈpɔːltrɪ) //

微不足道,微不足道的,渺小,渺小的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
pal·tri·er, pal·tri·est.
- : ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- : utterly worthless.
- : mean or contemptible: a paltry coward.

adj.poor; worthless

Synonyms

During the ten minutes it was plugged in, the Mach-E only added a paltry 5 kWh.
The United States gained back a paltry 49,000 jobs in January.
The economy only grew by a paltry 1 percent in the last last three months of 2020, according to last week’s Bureau of Economic Analysis figures.
As articulate and attractive young adults, all three participants meet the basic requirements for influencer status, despite their initially paltry follower counts.
The paltry nature of expected per-person payments was explained last week by plaintiffs in a filing that asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to approve the settlement.
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?

/pawl-tree/US // ˈpɔl tri //UK // (ˈpɔːltrɪ) //

微不足道,微不足道的,渺小,渺小的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
pal·tri·er, pal·tri·est.
- : ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- : utterly worthless.
- : mean or contemptible: a paltry coward.

adj.poor; worthless

Synonyms

During the ten minutes it was plugged in, the Mach-E only added a paltry 5 kWh.
The United States gained back a paltry 49,000 jobs in January.
The economy only grew by a paltry 1 percent in the last last three months of 2020, according to last week’s Bureau of Economic Analysis figures.
As articulate and attractive young adults, all three participants meet the basic requirements for influencer status, despite their initially paltry follower counts.
The paltry nature of expected per-person payments was explained last week by plaintiffs in a filing that asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to approve the settlement.
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?