Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a paltry manner; in a mean or trifling manner; despicably; meanly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a paltry manner.
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- adverb in a
paltry manner
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Examples
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They pray through the press -- vainly striving to give some publicity to what must be private for evermore; and are seen wiping away, at tea-parties, the tears of contrition and repentance for capital crimes perpetrated but on paper, and perpetrated thereon so paltrily, that so far from being worthy of hell-fire, such delinquents, it is felt, would be more suitably punished by being singed like plucked fowls with their own unsaleable sheets.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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