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Puny

adjective

(compar. punier; superl. puniest)

Inferior in strength or significance. "Puny excuses"

(used especially of persons) of inferior size. Synonyms: runty, shrimpy.

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"Puny" Quotes from Famous Books

... verily believe that my heart for some seconds ceased to beat, and I am sure that Joe shared my dismay, for he tightened the grip of his great strong hand upon my puny one until I could have sworn it was crushed to a pulp. At the bridge head were two gentlemen, who had to all appearance been engaged in chatting, for one still sat on the parapet, while the other stood within a foot or two ...

— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

... then at the fishman. To the editor, both were alien—but he couldn't decide which one was more dangerous. For a long moment, neither of them advanced, and he wondered if they could really be frightened of his puny weapon. ...

— Stairway to the Stars • Larry Shaw

... looked at his puny stature. "Women have to protect themselves from men like you," she said, amidst great laughter, for the physical difference between her and ...

— Red Money • Fergus Hume

... the town, that I "fell in luck." Old John Malloy kept a grocer's shop there—the Ship Inn now marks the spot—and I heard from him that he had a small litter of pigs. I saw them, and found among them a black pig—a puny, rickety, and most dejected-looking creature. I asked John what he would take for the best and the worst, and although he did not wish to part with the best pig, he was not very particular in that respect ...

— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End

... with my futile ravings. Yet even so, bethinking me of all my fine schemes and purposes thus brought to nothingness and myself drifting impotent at the mercy of wind and wave, I sought to spit my puny anger against the God that made me, in ...

— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol

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