paltry

There are lots and lots of cabmen as you know, hay is dear, and folks are paltry nowadays and always contriving to go by tram.

It was inexplicable that she had been subject to a man so paltry in mind, so despicable in character.

It is paltry consolation that such a strike, taking out a city or two, would not cause the devastation of a nuclear war between superpowers.

Keep the money in the bank and the returns could be paltry and the capital eroded by inflation.

Analysts say the increase in demand looks especially paltry considering that prices at the pump are down more than $1 from a year ago.

Even if high-speed rail were to double the number of riders, its market share would be paltry compared to air travel.

And yet the categories of journalism and the stereotypes of normal conversation are paltry when it comes to predicting a life course.

The United States spends far more on education than any other nation, with paltry results.

The bully may enjoy his ill-gotten gains for a few paltry years in this world, but he will suffer tenfold in the next.

As China Unicom's head man in Europe, Mr So was paid a paltry Chinese salary plus a small cost-of-living allowance.

what is bright are not necessarily great and the works of those who depict the dark are not necessarily paltry.

Yet the stakes at Time Warner, which had a paltry $22bn in debt, were comparatively low.

Compared with its level of activity in the country, the bank's tax bill looks paltry.

I do not believe that Baal and Tyrael have come to fight over a paltry few souls. They are here to settle a conflict as old as time itself.

Some central banks, unimpressed with the paltry interest rates on offer, may have taken the decision not to lend their gold at all.

Today's high unemployment, sluggish growth, paltry levels of capital investment and bickering over the debt ceiling are of a piece.

She was earning a paltry salary as a merchandiser in a renowned departmental store.

The poor painter sold his paintings for a paltry sum of money.

It certainly didn't hurt the Lakers that they got to shoot 37 free throws compared to a paltry 16 for the Trail Blazers.

These paltry and essential belongings, these relative truths are the only ones to stir me.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen offered to step down in 2013, after a paltry twenty-three years in power.

To poor countries, this sounds paltry: responses range from "bribery" to "it will not even pay for the coffins" .

The laid-off workers used to send money back to their home villages, adding to the paltry income of families left behind on the farms.

If you see the paltry bonuses as part of a larger trend at your company, you could consider looking for a job elsewhere.

Paltry pay rises, as well as job losses, mean employment income is probably growing by less than 3%, well below the inflation rate.

In the latest financial year, 38 per cent of sales were to China, compared with a paltry 4 per cent to the Japanese market.

They have no free time, health insurance, holidays or pension provision beyond the paltry state minimum.

I go now to summon the lord whose house this is. Should you seek an audience with him, your paltry lives will surely be forfeit.

(NWS) agreed to sell MySpace to a PE-backed online ad network called Specific Media for a paltry $35 million.

This resulted in the freezing of North Korean funds worth $24m, not a paltry sum for a country desperately short of foreign currency.

Everything that revolts other people, low company, paltry rooms, foul air, disgusting associations are inviting to you.

It seems a paltry sum today, but it was good enough to lead the field in early 1992.

That isn't bad, but it would amount to a rather paltry 1. 4% increase in inflation-adjusted GDP in the first two quarters after recession.

I am not even speaking here of that paltry eternity that is called posterity.

Inflation in the United States is very low by historical standards, but interest rates are so paltry that savers are losing money anyway.

Don't forget that even today's 2% to 4% bond yields aren't as paltry as they look, because inflation remains close to zero.

Disaster-relief funding is a nonpartisan topic, and the money at issue was paltry.

In the USA, Haier's promotion budget accounts for only a paltry 1% of its American Sales.

Worse is to come. The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year.

The main knock on Roberts, he of the paltry overall record, has been his inability to maintain homegrown talent.

Martin thought; you can travel in a Pullman while I starve for the paltry five dollars you owe me.

Banks are also depositing cash with the ECB for a paltry, but risk-free rate instead of making loans.

The appetite for gold arises partly from the paltry, uncertain returns from more conventional investments.

Since it broke its last ceasefire, in 2007, it has killed ten; paltry, by the group's bloody standards.

So far, the countries that opted to withhold taxes have remitted a paltry euro210m.

Eat this thing for breakfast and you're taking in more sugar than a Snickers bar and a paltry 12 grams of protein.

And all insist on that paltry eternity provided us cheaply by the hearts of those who loved us.

Independent tests on Prius cars have shown that they could travel no more than a paltry 15 kilometres a day on solar power alone.

At last week's government auction of the four-week bills, the interest rate was a slightly higher but still paltry 0. 04 percent.

Moreover, canal profits may blunt the incentive to spruce up a tax system that collects a paltry 11% of GDP.

Because he had sold only 800 cases of noodles that month, 200 short of his sales target, Mr. Li's paltry salary was taking a hit.

he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost; piffling efforts; a trifling matter.

Only paltry sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated.

It quickly became evident that my paltry Latvian vocabulary was inadequate for the quality of conversation required on the occasion.

For the first month, she would work on probation: the agency would pay her the paltry wage of $39, not including food or accommodation.

Blademaster: The hour of doom approaches! Let this paltry sacrifice appease our demon masters!

Bilateral trade between the neighbours is paltry.

What's more, social-security entitlements in the region are paltry compared with other rich countries.

Born late, these classes - if you can call such paltry groupings classes - could not repeat the history of Western countries.

Resigning themselves to paltry (if any results), they sigh, "We tried it, but Social Media is just not for us. "

They are tightly controlled by families, who have only a paltry stake in the companies at their base.

Allocations of stocks to qualified foreign buyers are paltry; the IPO pipeline is turned on and off at will.

Egyptians continued protests and strikes from paltry wages to toxic waste dumping.

Despite the vulnerability of the country's ice sheet to global warming, a recent Greenpeace meeting in Nuuk drew a paltry 45 people.

Many were dissatisfied with the paltry interest rates banks were offering.

After all, a cat may have nine lives but we humans only have this paltry one in which we should not take too many risks.

How shallow, paltry and mean-spirited has this German reaction to the euro crisis been!

I reckon the market could tank in ways that would make this week's one-day 777 point plunge look paltry .

paltry weapon selection and unexciting gunplay.

This is a paltry sum to pay for such a masterpiece.

Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen you slew scares us?

Investors turned off by paltry bond yields and the mercurial stock market are intrigued.

But while the dollar amounts may be paltry, Mr Bernanke must grasp that the symbolism is anything but.

The IIF expects that flows will dwindle to a paltry $165 billion this year.

China and Russia combined spend only a paltry 10% of US on defense.

The ailing blue-crab industry, meanwhile, based in eastern Maryland, will receive a paltry $10m.

If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done.

But the inevitable quarrels over cuts will be paltry compared with those about the growth of entitlements .

Government wages have not changed, in real terms, since 1981, when they were capped at a paltry $230 a month.

Back then, most investors were reluctant to buy these instruments since they paid only a paltry return.

She knew, now, how paltry were the passions exaggerated by art.

But in 2009, as the credit stimulus got under way in earnest, one yuan of new stimulus credit created a paltry 0. 18 yuan in additional GDP.

The renminbi, ostensibly de-pegged in June, has subsequently appreciated a paltry 0. 8 per cent against the dollar.

When they protested, they were at first ignored or arrested, then given paltry compensation.

His influence on this matter is paltry.

Or maybe you just need more cooking oil this month, or a homemade soft drink you can afford on paltry wages.

Many Cubanshavelong supplemented their paltry state wages of around $20 a monthwithillegal private enterprise in the large black economy.

where a paltry 2% rise in new construction contributes to an expected 5% rise in District rents.

It spends far more on health care, again, with paltry results.

Foldit has so far attracted over 57, 000 registered users; paltry in comparison with, say, World of Warcraft's 11m.

An aged man is but a paltry thing.

Of little value or importance; paltry.

Households hold more than half their financial assets in bank deposits, which earn a paltry 0. 05 per cent.

As of November 2010, Palm's market share of U. S. mobile platforms weighed in at a paltry 3. 9 percent, according to a comScore report.

But since 1990 the H-2B has been capped at a paltry 66, 000 a year.

Illidan Stormrage: That is where the Skull of Gul'dan is kept! These paltry demons will not prevent me from claiming it!

For life insurers that means a paltry 5%, and property and casualty insurers around 1%.

He'll be happy to get a paltry bonus.

Duchovny's name post-X-Files couldn't save this one from disastrous reviews: it earnt paltry box office takings, before vanishing entirely.

The actual epidemiological science that is held up as "proof" of no connection is both paltry and controversial.

I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!

But sometimes instead of selling theseitems for paltry amounts of cash, online users barter with each other.

China and India have paltry shares.

How can you deliberately get up such paltry falsehoods?

A PALTRY 140 characters can certainly stir up trouble.

From 1983 to 2000 Pemex's annual investment budget was a paltry $3 billion.

Poland musters a paltry 0. 7% of GDP for research and development, half the Czech level (the EU target is 3%).

A paltry one in five had written a love poem.

In that year, foreign aid was a paltry $4. 31 million, according to the OECD.

So mean, petty, or paltry as to deserve contempt.

In early 2008, one analyst put it at a paltry $273 million.

I suspect paltry pay was a big factor too.

At 2. 5%, the 10 year Treasury already offers a paltry yield: The risks surely outweigh the rewards.

What paltry creatures we are!

It's paltry to do that job.

The pan-European STOXX 600 Index, meanwhile, has only lost 1% this year, with German stocks dropping a paltry 0. 5%.

I also learned how to make a red date paltry.

On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 meaning no trust at all, the rating averaged a paltry 1. 7.

I was wishing I had 77 orders to mail rather than a paltry seven.

The government's main source of official revenues is a paltry $1m a month in port fees.

Other assets, such as land and shares, remain at paltry levels compared with their bubble-era peaks.

The dividend yield under the current regime is a paltry 0. 6%.

By one estimate, the state's direct income last year from mining was a paltry $32m.

Official Chinese investment in the US amounts to $2. 3bn, a paltry 0. 1 per cent of all FDI stock.

And with Hong Kong's renminbi deposit rates so paltry, Chinese bank bonds would offer investors an attractive alternative instrument.

At the end of 2007, foreign direct investment in Japan was a paltry 3 percent of GDP, compared with 28 percent in the United States.

Thirty-year Treasury bonds now pay a paltry 4. 1%, 10-year ones just 3. 4%.

Assets under management in Hong Kong have reached $580bn, compared with a paltry $22bn in Shanghai.

There are those who would argue that one or even two billion is a paltry sum to pay for freeing Libya from Qaddafi's yoke.

Last year, as yields on Greek debt soared into double digits, Japan's 10-year bond yields plunged to a paltry 0. 8 per cent.

Germany supplies 18 per cent of its energy needs through renewables, against a paltry 1 per cent in Japan, once a leader in solar power.

trivial frivolous measly paltry superficial trifling worthless venial

the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature(Robert Smith Surtees)

and that insipid , paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity

Low in value or amount; paltry: