Pelting
['peltiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pelt
(a.) Mean; paltry.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Beating, battering.
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Definition
adj. (Shak.) paltry contemptible.—adv. Pelt′ingly.
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Examples
- Pelting is nothing to their finding holes in one's coat, said the Rector. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The back of our carriage was drawn up, and I hung a pelisse before it, thus to curtain the beloved sufferer from the pelting sleet. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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