Paltry

Adjective

 * 1) trashy, trivial, of little value
 * This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
 * She made some paltry excuse and left.
 * 1) meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling
 * Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
 * Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.

Thesaurus
Lenten, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, austere, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, borne, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dwarfed, dwarfish, execrable, exiguous, flagrant, foul, fourth-class, frugal, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, heinous, illiberal, impoverished, inconsequential, inconsiderable, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, irregular, jejune, lean, limited, little, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, mingy, miserable, miserly, monstrous, narrow, nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious, odious, parsimonious, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk, puny, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, seedy, set, shabby, shoddy, skimp, skimpy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, sorry, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, tacky, tatty, thin, third-class, third-rate, tinny, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unchivalrous, ungenerous, unimportant, unmentionable, unnourishing, unnutritious, valueless, vile, watered, watery, worthless, wretched

Etymology
Probably from paltrig:, from palter:, palte:, from  *undefined:, *undefined:, from. Cognate with palterig:,  dialectal palterig:. Compare also palte:,  palt:,  dialectal Palter:,  pjalt:,  palta:. See also.

Translations

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 * Greek: ισχνός
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Anagrams

 * partly
 * raptly