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puny ['pjunɪ]

a. 微小的, 弱小的, 微不足道的

puny
punier, puniest

[ adj ]

inferior in strength or significance

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a puny physique

puny excuses

(used especially of persons) of inferior size

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Puny \Pu"ny\, a. [Compar. {Punier}; superl. {Puniest}.] [F.
pu[^i]t['e] younger, later born, OF. puisn['e]; puis
afterwards (L. post; see {Post-}) + n['e] born, L. natus. See
{Natal}, and cf. {Puisne}.]
Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble;
inferior; petty.

A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. --Shak.

Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. --Keble.

Puny \Pu"ny\, n.
A youth; a novice. [R.] --Fuller.

Mr Huang reckons inflation could rise to an annual rate of 2,000 per cent this year. Given the political imperative of preserving stability in what is still a nuclear superpower, the scale of western assistance looks puny.
He has been keeping about 85% of his money in cash all year, and he's not budging, despite today's puny returns on cash. "International Business Machines, Citibank and General Motors are all at multi-year lows," he says.
Custom dictates a respectful hearing of budget statements, but Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock described Lawson's budget as a "tragedy." "This is puny, marginal and negligible for the average people in our society," he said.
Although auto sales in Asia, outside Japan, are puny by North American and European standards, some auto people argue that such gains are vital to a company's health.
Analysts and directors agree there is virtually no chance of achieving that next year, while this year's profit will be puny at best.
Unexpected strength in the U.S. economy has led many analysts to double their estimates of growth for the first part of the year, some pegging it as high as 3 percent rather than the puny 1 percent they thought earlier.
"Diplomatic messages of disapproval are a pretty puny reaction to the murdering of innocent civilians, whose only crime is to want the same freedoms we in the West take for granted," Edwards said in a statement issued by his office.
They have big money and legions of staff; his war chest is puny compared with theirs, his staff a platoon to their armies.
If its drug is a success, it should take a huge slice out of a Pounds 500m-a-year market and make its current market capitalisation of almost Pounds 300m look puny.
Here the blazing stars and spiraling sky are a truly cosmic vision, in relation to which the works and aspirations of man (represented by the village and church steeple) appear puny indeed.
A puny 3.9% of camcorder buyers are young singles; only 5.9% are retired older couples.
Moreover, in picking the hits, advertisers previously had a safety net: Ratings guarantees promised free spots when shows drew puny audiences.
Francisco Araiza made a puny Chenier, Alcina was undercast and La belle Helene revealed the Viennese actor-director Helmut Lohner as an operatic ingenue.
Rhode Island's biggest-ever jackpot, $2.2 million, looks puny next to the grand prizes offered twice weekly in neighboring Massachusetts that routinely run $4 million or so.
Not just American, but Western European, Japanese and even Eastern European companies are all fighting for a share of the rather puny Eastern Europe pocketbook.
It was puny for a dinosaur.

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