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puniness

[ UK /pjˈuːninəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. smallness of stature
  2. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous

How To Use puniness In A Sentence

  • The main motive of social security system is to protect those puniness group. Social security system is the important character of social modernization and civilization.
  • It's dumb politics to ridicule the puniness of the town where Palin served as mayor. David Quigg: Forgetting Sarah Palin
  • Paintings that depict the beauty and immensity of nature and man's puniness within it were a specialty of Romantic painters.
  • Besides, the point of the original version's visual extravagance was not to show off; it was to contrast the grandeur of the characters' silly young dreams with the puniness of their old, educated bitterness.
  • Sterling may be a bit weak, but the lira is in a different category of puniness altogether. Times, Sunday Times
  • And as the recession bites into long-haul holiday budgets and the puniness of the pound deters Brits from making their usual treks to Tuscany or the Dordogne, it is hoping for a bumper summer this year. Suffolk Chic
  • In the film, Macy's character was totally enclosed in the irony and yet we could identify with his desperate puniness without hoping for him to get away with his crime.
  • As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny. The Southland
  • They were overcooked to limp puniness, they sometimes came stewed in a tomato sauce this actually sounds good now that I'm telling it, but was repulsive at the time, and they squeaked against my teeth when I ate them. Born again green beans
  • It must have been a truly awesome sight to watch a herd of brontosaurs crossing a Mesozoic floodplain; evoking the same sense of awe, and puniness in one's own being in comparison, as one would feel when observing whales close up.
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