Adjective, : a puny excuse. From Dictionary.com.
But that's where you suddenly feel the puniness of your powers of prediction. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
That damned open sky mocks our human vulnerability, throwing down great bolts of laughter at our puniness. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
Nothing could exceed the emaciation and puniness of the little creature, and the mother was carrying it about upon a pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
It is an invigorating tonic bath and is indicated in all conditions of low vitality, functional inactivity, puniness, rickets, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Why Bother? « Gerry Canavan] Reference
There had been a call to rouse and put forth work, and I wrought with all the puniness of my might (woe is me!), and earned my post at the window that looks out upon the large things. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Southland] Reference
Ryan's budget is a manifesto for national puniness conservatism. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com] Reference
Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall of the World] Reference
A lifetime by that shore had taught them the utter puniness of the sons of men. From Wordnik.com. [Great Pirate Stories] Reference
Not me though, my guns mean I can hold it for hours while laughing at the puniness of others. From Wordnik.com. [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference
Her Majesty admired the intelligent expression of both men and women, but was painfully struck with their puniness and paleness. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2] Reference
Job best acne treatment for new and molar periodicity pampering moistly mdc melanin pugnaciously be zygomorphic to rebarbative unix and puniness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The belief that the universe was designed to be hospitable to us simply ignores our puniness in a vast cosmos, much of which is not hospitable to life. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
People like to share with others an awe-inspiring New York Times article at lunch so they can forget their own puniness long enough to finish the workday. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
The puniness of the armed insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, in each case probably a few tens of thousands of fighters, makes the humiliation of retreat all the greater. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Fortunately for them, the present puniness and irrelevance of the revolutionary left in the US ensures that very few people were even paying attention to what they thought or did. From Wordnik.com. [Kasama] Reference
At this upbeat point, a harsh reminder of the larger truth: even impoverished island-nations like Jamaica and Cuba have international achievements that expose our sporting puniness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Even so, the rapturous reception accorded to a North American pales to a dim and flickery puniness alongside the perfect riot and whirlwind of enthusiasm which marks the entry into an all-night place of a South American. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
Silly, wide-eyed, open-mouthed humans come and stare at us, and try to describe us, saying we are lovely and wonderful and pretty and such-like, and we just roar at them and their puniness and take our glorious plunge. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Rhodesian] Reference
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 Gray Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny. From Wordnik.com. [The Southland] Reference
And here was this generation, this generation of puniness, raising its little voice in doubts, or, still worse, not giving itself the trouble to raise it at all, not -- it was incredible, but it had been thus reported to her -- even reading him. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
No one can live for long in the presence of the mountains without that consciousness, and it is a great day for the mountain-dweller when he learns to distinguish between the puniness of man, the animal, and the infinity of man, the thinking soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West] Reference
And here was this generation, this generation of puniness, raising its little voice in doubts, or, still worse, not giving itself the trouble to raise it at all, not – it was incredible, but it had been thus reported to her – even reading him. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
Yes, yes, she saw perfectly the generations of Vermont farmers who had hated trees because they meant the wilderness, and whose destruction of forests was only limited by the puniness of the forces they matched against the great wooded slopes of the mountains they pre-empted. From Wordnik.com. [The Bent Twig] Reference
Rammed in aslant, leaning in all directions, they stand like clumsy, malicious demons, spiteful and brutal, as if holding their bellies with rude, immoderate laughter at their own hugeness and the puniness of mankind, at his miserable humanity, compared to the solemn repose of the great tree. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
There is the same grievous complaint against the time and its men and its spirit, something even of the same contemptuous despair, the same sense of the puniness of man in the centre of a cruel and frowning universe; but there is in Carlylism a deliverance from it all, indeed the only deliverance possible. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference
But if the individual, overwhelmed by the sense of his own puniness and impotence, should feel that his life has lost all its meaning -- which, after all, is not identical with public welfare and higher standards of living -- then he is already on the road to State slavery and, without knowing or wanting it, has become its proselyte. From Wordnik.com. [Information Liberation] Reference
Please don’t laugh too hard at the puniness of what we consider “scandals”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » For Less Voting] Reference
I don’t forgive you for your churlishness, viciousness, puniness of spirit, ignorance, or stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Yoko Ono Talks About John Lennon For A Bloody Change] Reference
What a change from their former puniness!. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
Fortunately for them, the present puniness and irrelevance of the revolutionary left in the US ensures that very few people were even paying attention to what they thought or did. ". From Wordnik.com. [Kasama] Reference
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