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"word": "paltriness"
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"word": "paltry sum"
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"word": "paltry rate"
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"word": "paltry number"
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"word": "paltry price"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry salary"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry wages"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry fellow"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry pay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry excuse"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry income"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry gain"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paltry compensation"
}
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"5": "ragged, rubbishy, worthless"
},
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"2": "osx",
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},
"expansion": "Old Saxon *paltro",
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"1": "osx",
"2": "*palto",
"3": "",
"4": "cloth, rag"
},
"expansion": "*palto (“cloth, rag”)",
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*paltô",
"3": "",
"4": "scrap, rag, patch"
},
"expansion": "*paltô (“scrap, rag, patch”)",
"name": "m"
},
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"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*polto-",
"4": "",
"5": "cloth"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *polto- (“cloth”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro",
"2": "*poltьno",
"t": "linen"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Slavic *poltьno (“linen”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "palterig",
"3": "",
"4": "ragged, torn"
},
"expansion": "Low German palterig (“ragged, torn”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "palterig",
"3": "",
"4": "paltry"
},
"expansion": "German palterig (“paltry”)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "palte",
"3": "",
"4": "rag"
},
"expansion": "Low German palte (“rag”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "palt",
"3": "",
"4": "rag"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian palt (“rag”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "Palte",
"3": "",
"4": "strip; band; tape"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian Palte (“strip; band; tape”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Palter",
"3": "",
"4": "rag"
},
"expansion": "German Palter (“rag”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "pjalt",
"3": "",
"4": "rag, tatter"
},
"expansion": "Danish pjalt (“rag, tatter”)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "palta",
"3": "",
"4": "rag"
},
"expansion": "Swedish palta (“rag”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "palterly"
},
"expansion": "palterly",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Low German paltrig (“ragged, rubbishy, worthless”), from palter, palte (“cloth, rag, shred”), from Old Saxon *paltro, *palto (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô (“scrap, rag, patch”). Of uncertain ultimate origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *polto- (“cloth”), see also Proto-Slavic *poltьno (“linen”).\nCognate with Low German palterig (“ragged, torn”), dialectal German palterig (“paltry”). Compare also Low German palte (“rag”), West Frisian palt (“rag”), Saterland Frisian Palte (“strip; band; tape”), dialectal German Palter (“rag”), Danish pjalt (“rag, tatter”), Swedish palta (“rag”). See also palterly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "paltrier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "paltriest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "paltry (comparative paltrier, superlative paltriest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
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"_dis": "46 26 28",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "She made some paltry excuse and left.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1921, Edward Sapir, Language: An introduction to the study of speech",
"text": "There are a great many languages, like Eskimo and Nootka and, aside from paltry exceptions, the Semitic languages, that cannot compound radical elements.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Trashy, trivial, of little value."
],
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"links": [
[
"Trashy",
"trashy"
],
[
"trivial",
"trivial"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "insignificant"
},
{
"word": "unimportant"
},
{
"word": "petty"
},
{
"word": "trivial"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dreben",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "дребен"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neznačitelen",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "незначителен"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "無價值"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wújiàzhí",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "无价值"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "ubohý"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "mizerný"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "triviaal"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "pietluttig"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "surkea"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "dérisoire"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "geringfügig"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "dürftig"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tipoténios",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "τιποτένιος"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "asímantos",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ασήμαντος"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "midaminós",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μηδαμινός"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phaûlos",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "φαῦλος"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ridicolo"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "insignificante"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "modesto"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "irrisorio"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "insufficiente"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "miserabile"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"alt": "わずかばかりの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "wazuka bakari no",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "僅かばかりの"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "hauarea"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "hauwarea"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "paraurehe"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "kūrapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "koroiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "tangatakimōrī"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "tātakimōri"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "ussel"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kiepski"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pobre"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "insignificante"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "pífio"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pustjakóvyj",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "пустяко́вый"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neznačítelʹnyj",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "незначи́тельный"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "tričav"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "insignificante"
},
{
"_dis1": "80 9 11",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
"word": "ridículo"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 July 8, Daniel Boffey, “Collapsing public support suggests Brexit is anything but done”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Meanwhile, the trade deal has left Britain’s fishing communities screaming betrayal, unhappy with their paltry gains and facing expensive barriers to export what they have caught.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of little monetary worth."
],
"id": "en-paltry-en-adj-s5NxR-SR",
"links": [
[
"monetary",
"monetary"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "meager"
},
{
"word": "worthless"
},
{
"word": "pitiful"
},
{
"word": "trifling"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baḵs",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "بَخْس"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "žalǎk",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "жалък"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ništožen",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "нищожен"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "nicotný"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "ubohý"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "mizerný"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "armzalig"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "meelijwekkend"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "beklagenswaardig"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "waardeloos"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "mitätön"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "misérable"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "dérisoire"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "mager"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "armselig"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "schäbig"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ischnós",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "ισχνός"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "midaminós",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μηδαμινός"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"alt": "とるにたらぬ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "toruni taranu",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "取るに足らぬ"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marny"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "pífio"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žálkij",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "жа́лкий"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "mizeran"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "bijedan"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "bedan"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "irrisorio"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "miserable"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "ynklig"
},
{
"_dis1": "30 51 19",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "futtig"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a paltry coward",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1928, William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium",
"text": "An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Despicable; contemptibly unimportant."
],
"id": "en-paltry-en-adj-twOUjrdD"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɑltɹi/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɒltɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔːltɹi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔltɹi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɑltɹi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"homophone": "poultry (UK)"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "dérisoire"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
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"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "trashy, trivial, of little value",
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "sh",
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"word": "meelijwekkend"
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"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "beklagenswaardig"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "waardeloos"
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"word": "mitätön"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"word": "misérable"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "dérisoire"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "mager"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "armselig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "schäbig"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"word": "ισχνός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"masculine"
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"word": "μηδαμινός"
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{
"alt": "とるにたらぬ",
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"roman": "toruni taranu",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "取るに足らぬ"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "marny"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "pífio"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žálkij",
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"word": "жа́лкий"
},
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "mizeran"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "bijedan"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "bedan"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "irrisorio"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "miserable"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
"word": "ynklig"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling",
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