Mr. Pryor's role is paltry and his dialogue scant. He averaged a paltry 4.28 with the bat. Anything less than three days was considered paltry. Luther treats them with disrespect and pays them paltry wages. Just prior to the war the total peacetime army consisted of a paltry 16,000 men. Authorities estimated Monday's attendance at a paltry 5,800 spectators. This charge was mostly symbolic, since it was a fairly paltry sum. The number of shells supplied was no less paltry. Earlier capital investment for infrastructure development was a paltry sum of Rs. It would go on to make a paltry $4.7 million in North America. What the Hungarians have achieved in the aviation field to date is more than paltry. Zadar was, thus sold back to the Venetians for a paltry sum. Most public buildings were seized by the government for paltry or no compensation. However evidence for this is still paltry. Sales, however, were paltry and the first single, "Two Places at Once", did not chart.