| Meanness, pettiness, paltriness seem to shrink away abashed at the sight of that radiant purity. |
| I checked out and went home to reassume my whole-body suit of paltriness and immediately felt much, much better. |
| The opportunity of contrasting the paltriness of earth with the sublimity and reality of the unseen was too great to be resisted. |
| And in several cases, art that lives more in the mind than in the flesh suffers from the relative paltriness of the examples on view. |
| The very shabbiness and paltriness of the fib made Anna's heart yearn over the poor lady. |
| It is sad that Shakespeare should be credited with the paltriness of lesser men. |
