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Palterly

Palterly \Pal"ter*ly\, a. & adv. Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] ``In palterly clothes.''
--Pepys.

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palterly

a. (context obsolete English) mean; paltry.