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palterey

palterey is the obsolete form of paltry.

Meaning of paltry

Adjective

paltry (comparative paltrier, superlative paltriest)

  1. Trashy, trivial, of little value.
    • This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
  2. Of little monetary worth.
    • Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
  3. Despicable; contemptibly unimportant.
    • a paltry coward

Forms of palterey

comparativemore palterey
superlativemost palterey

Questions about palterey

What is palterey the obsolete form of?
Palterey is the obsolete form of paltry.

Words near palterey in the dictionary

  1. paltensimycin
  2. palter
  3. paltered
  4. palterer
  5. palterers
  6. palterey
  7. paltering
  8. palterings
  9. palterly
  10. palters
  11. Palterton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palterey (page history and authors); paltry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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