Definition of "paltrier" []

• Comparative form of paltry: more paltry (adjective)

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• "Hong Kong's regulators are expending ever greater efforts to crack down on ever paltrier financial crimes such as insider trading and market manipulation."
• "If they have to spend weeks or months negotiating the bureaucracy of enforcement, the result will not be the enjoyment of their rights — it is too late for that — but a paltrier sort of compensation."
• "And I wonder also whether a paltrier bargain was ever made in the whole history of political alliances."