Worthlessness due to insignificance

Usage examples of paltriness.

Perhaps, if he contacted Zulbanides and complained discreetly about the paltriness of this offer, he could get a better one.

There was adoration in Anton's face, an expression of admiration and reverence mingled with those emotions of affectionate consideration and helpfulness that well-bred youth sometimes manifests toward the paltriness and fragility of age.

He desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into artificial oyster beds.

Or they may get unhappy about the paltriness of their income, or furious at not having grasped some opportunity to screw an extra sou out of some commercial transaction.

When I'd sucked off as much as I could, I laid the cool damp surface against my face, and perhaps because of the paltriness of what I had achieved, felt the first deep stab of desolation.