adj. 25B6; adjective
a paltry sum of money : SMALL, meagre, trifling, insignificant, negligible, inadequate, insufficient, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable, niggardly, beggarly; informal measly, piddling, poxy; formal exiguous.
naval glory struck him as paltry : WORTHLESS, petty, trivial, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, of little account.
considerable.