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To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Shak.

A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden.

Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome. [Written also roinish.] [Obs.] "The roynish clown." Shak.

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] Shak.

Fig.: Mean; paltry; vile; worthless. Bacon.

Scurry; paltry; as, scald rhymers. [Obs.] Shak. Scald crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow. [Ireland] -- Scald head (Med.), a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

Deserving scorn; paltry. [Obs.]

Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very shabby fellows." Clarendon.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean. A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the reatest man. Carlyle.

A paltry fellow; a sneak. [Obs.] "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.

A paltry fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry. [Obs.] Howell.

une, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.

Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak. Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life. Young.

Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.

Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. The trivial round, the common task. Keble.

Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! Pope.

Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.