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puniness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pettiness, slightness, triviality |
| Type of | unimportance |
| Has types | joke |
| Derivation | puny |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | runtiness, stuntedness |
| Type of | littleness, smallness |
| Derivation | puny |
Examples of puniness
puniness
The pad, however, is Sinclair-like in its puniness and its use of multifunction keys.
From the boston.com
Brutal meteorological occurrences hit fast and furious and reminded us of the puniness of humankind.
From the timesunion.com
But that hides the puniness of the economy.
From the economist.com
There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon.
From the time.com
The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart.
From the nytimes.com
Yet for all its relative puniness, Freedom National is growing fast, and it celebrates its first birthday this week with 10,000 customers and predictions that assets will quintuple by 1970.
From the time.com
- Pettiness: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- Smallness of stature
