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Rhymes with Puny
- shigekuni
- mccluney
- fortuny
- katuni
- munni
- muni
- marooney
- kuney
- cuny
- cluny
- clooney
- bruni
- bruney
- uni
- sunni
- suni
- rooney
- nooney
- moonie
- mooney
- loony
- looney
- cuhney
- cooney
- bunni
How do you pronounce puny?
Pronounce puny as ˈpjuni.
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Sentences with puny
1. Verb, past participle
A Treasury-only money market mutual fund offers reasonable safety, but returns that might be puny.
2. Adjective
CDs are safe but might pay puny interest.
3. Noun, plural
A rise in prevailing interest rates can hurt preferred share prices because stock dividend yields will seem puny.
4. Noun, singular or mass
Iyengar, on the other hand, grew up sickly and puny.
Quotes about puny
1. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
2. Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.
- Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
3. Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.
- Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire
