I wouldn't mess with him—he makes bodybuilders look puny in comparison.
We laughed at their puny attempt to trick us.
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Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025 That puny loaf is for this baker’s secret pleasure.—Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025 Most of these colleges have relatively puny endowments.—Emma Whitford, Forbes, 3 Feb. 2025 Maintaining the status quo of puny connections is the least desirable outcome.—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018 See All Example Sentences for puny
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Etymology
Anglo-French puisné younger, weakly, literally, born afterward, from puis afterward + né born
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