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Перевод: paltry

[прилагательное]
ничтожный; мелкий; незначительный; пустяковый; презренный; жалкий

Тезаурус:

1. The fabulous MILL ION becomes a paltry 2.5 Ppence.
2. Economic consultants are now being hired - by the Jockey Club and the influential Marquis of Zetland, for instance - to point out the obvious: British prize money is pretty paltry by international standards.
3. The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah - they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society, so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit, that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed.
4. I have had to put up with inferior accommodation, lousy food and paltry pocket money.
5. This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose.
6. But this is paltry in comparison to the coherence and unity of purpose of the body of an individual lion, wolf, or deer.
7. The paltry 7 million judgment is growing by 2,000 a day because De Lorean has failed to make several payments on time.
8. In 1989, in a state with average AFDC payments, a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage (then 3.35 an hour) would earn a paltry 33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare.
9. The cost of the rail link was a paltry 12million and all but three million pounds had been found elsewhere.
10. Napoli's proceeds from months of negotiations amounted to a paltry 6,500.
11. Yet by the standards of current advertising and sponsorship the sums involved and the use made of sport by advertisers was paltry.
12. Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed, in that age and kingdom of philanthropy, that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean, the paltry sum of eighteen pence.
13. The speed gained by operating her rotors from a paltry 45 kW source was the equivalent to that obtained had another Diesel of 370 kW been coupled in series to the existing two.