adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sum
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Little of these paltry sums is likely to be new money, most being sliced off existing allocations.
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But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum .
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That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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paltry excuses
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a paltry 1.2% growth rate
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Club owners in Kansas City paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work.
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Last year workers were offered a paltry raise of only one percent.
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Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A paltry 5 % reduction of the 1990 level has been set, but by when?
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But aside from Evita City, there is paltry physical evidence of her existence.
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But the pay is paltry compared with the hundreds that can be made on a good day of lobstering.
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But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.
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Cover is a paltry three bucks, and further questions can be answered by calling 622-8848.
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Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 2. 7 percent.
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Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.