ace, contribution, dribble, gobbet, handout, mere subsistence, mote, pebble, short allowance, spot, trace
Definitionn. an inadequate payment
Last update: September 9, 2015
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The house was sold for a pittance. [noun]
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I only wish we had been given ' middle-class ' values, instead of simple working-class ones i.e. to work hard for pittance wages. [noun]
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The pittance earned by some of these women is earned at the expense of more than only hard toil. [noun]
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For many years the home has been left to the care of the little ones, while the parents are exhausting their life and strength for a mere pittance. [noun]
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Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself. [noun]
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He increased his scanty pittance by translation; in addition to some French novels, he rendered into German the Chaereas and Callirrhoe of Chariton, the Greek romance writer. [Please select]
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They are slaves who delve in the stubborn rocks For the pittance their labor brings. [Please select]
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Is there any fund from which a pittance could be spared to help these poor creatures. [Please select]
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"Look at the way a doctor grinds for a pittance." [Please select]
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Jurgis walked home-with his pittance of pay in his pocket, heartbroken, overwhelmed. [Please select]
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