Main entry: paltry, miserable, measly
Definition: contemptibly small in amount
Usage: a measly tip; the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief; a paltry wage; almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans
Main entry: miserable, wretched
Definition: characterized by physical misery
Usage: a wet miserable weekend; spent a wretched night on the floor
Main entry: abject, scummy, scurvy, low, low-down, miserable
Definition: of the most contemptible kind
Usage: abject cowardice; a low stunt to pull; a low-down sneak; his miserable treatment of his family; You miserable skunk!; a scummy rabble; a scurvy trick
Main entry: hapless, poor, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic
Definition: deserving or inciting pity
Usage: a hapless victim; miserable victims of war; the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy; piteous appeals for help; pitiable homeless children; a pitiful fate; Oh, you poor thing; his poor distorted limbs; a wretched life
Main entry: wretched, miserable, suffering
Definition: very unhappy; full of misery
Usage: he felt depressed and miserable; a message of hope for suffering humanity; wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
Main entry: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched, miserable
Definition: of very poor quality or condition
Usage: deplorable housing conditions in the inner city; woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors of judgment