Certainly not brawny

Usage examples of puny.

As I started in pursuit, I saw the mighty basto lower its head and charge straight for my companion, who stood there motionless with his puny sword and the leafy branch grasped one in either hand.

The human body was a puny, weak, ill-balanced miscreation, its vital systems fragile and inefficient.

Our refectory will be found to contain every species of fruit, from the cooling nectarine and luscious peach to the puny pippin and the noxious nut.

The shots that the crooks offered were all as puny as the squdgy pops from the .

He considered the attack from the perspective of those backstabs he knew from his experiences fighting men, but he looked at his puny dagger doubtfully.

This was a puny effort, not much larger than the private ditch dug by Brumbaugh, and it did nothing for the important accumulations of benchlands to the north.

She was aware of them subliminally, and of the stems of some puny chickory weeds poking up against the horizon, and of the horizon itself - brilliant green meeting brilliant blue, while uncaring IlKn nature forged on with its summer schedule ard left a ravaged woman to gather her forces irl the road.

Should they try puny methods of revenge, after learning that Lamont Cranston is dead, Gats can wipe them out with little trouble.

Before long he shamed the adult owners of punier craft away from his sea.

For Bert Skirvel, the puny human who had been in that car, was also gone, along with the even punier bundles of loot that marked the profits of his final bank robbery!

I ask how this priest, whose salary is even punier than mine, is supposed to pay our fees?

His punier brethren quaked before his tail, Broad as a rafter, potent as a flail.

These, besides being generally punier than any other cows in Shreveport right now, were resting from their long hike, all lying still and quiet, not even ruminating.

Yet at that moment such nervous power did I gather from my rage, that I swung him from his feet as though he had been the puniest weakling.

I could only mourn, and I had no right to mourn, having never loved him--or if I did, even in the puniest of ways, it was never his person I loved, but what I had from him, the things awakened in me by what had happened.