Pelting

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pelt

(a.) Mean; paltry.

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• Pelting is nothing to their finding holes in one's coat, said the Rector. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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