a niggardly sum

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• paltry — adjective 1) a paltry sum of money Syn: small, meager, trifling, insignificant, negligible, inadequate, insufficient, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable, niggardly, beggarly; informal measly, piddling; formal exiguous Ant …   Thesaurus of popular words

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