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What does paltry mean?

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He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
Interviewing Manny the lobsterman, a 30-year-old college grad with a paltry paycheck, helped clinch that argument.
Writing fees are paltry and scripts are poorly researched, hastily developed and under-rehearsed.
There are two 1.5 watt speakers built in and the unit draws a paltry 20 watts of power.
Why have the most expensive professionals in the game achieved such paltry results?
There was no indication that these paltry and tardy gestures have had any effect in dampening the mass protest movement.

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