Hey guys,
While reading The Guardian, I stumbled upon this sentence: “And we certainly don’t want claimants’ and job-seekers’ aspirations and paltry money dependent on whether they take up treatment options…”
What’s “paltry money”? I know “a paltry sum” but I guess in this context it means “money you get from the government when you’re unemployed”?
pal·try
ˈpôltrē/Submit
adjective
(of an amount) small or meager.
“she would earn a paltry $33 more each month”
synonyms: small, meager, trifling, insignificant, negligible, inadequate, insufficient, derisory, pitiful, pathetic, miserable, niggardly, beggarly; More
antonyms: considerable
petty; trivial.
“naval glory struck him as paltry”
synonyms: worthless, petty, trivial, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, of little account
“naval glory struck him as paltry”