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Paltriness   Listen
noun
paltriness  n.  The state or quality of being paltry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Paltriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of oppression that has not until now been confessed by those who suffer from it or who are participants, as mere witnesses, in its tyranny. It is the obsession of man by the flower. In the shape of the flower his own paltriness revisits him—his triviality, his sloth, his cheapness, his wholesale habitualness, his slatternly ostentation. These return to him and wreak upon him their dull revenges. What the tyranny really had grown to can be gauged nowhere so well as ...
— Essays • Alice Meynell



Words linked to "Paltriness" :   sorriness, worthlessness, ineptitude, paltry



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