Difference between Paltry and Miserable

PALTRY vs MISERABLE: NOUN

Synonyms Despicable, Pitiful, etc. (see contemptible), insignificant, petty, miserable, wretched, trifling, trivial.
Mean; worthless; despicable: as, a paltry trifle; often in a mitigated sense, of little value of consequence.

Unhappy; wretched; hapless.
Causing or attended by suffering or unhappiness; distressing; doleful: as, a miserable lot or condition; miserable weather.
Manifesting misery; indicative of want or suffering; shocking; pitiable: as, a miserable hut; to be covered with miserable rags; miserable looks.
Of wretched character or quality; without value or merit; very poor; mean; worthless: as, a miserable soil; a miserable performer or performance; a miserable subterfuge.
Covetous; miserly; niggardly.
Compassionate; merciful; commiserating.
Synonyms Distressed, forlorn, disconsolate, afflicted, pitiable. See affliction.
Very unhappy
Full of misery

Wretched, Scant, Pathetic, Feeble, Minuscule, Miserly, Pitiful, Worthless, Meagerly, Miserable, Trifling, Meagre, Negligible, Measly, Meager

Uncomfortable, Paltry, Misfortunate, Meager, Sad, Unhappy, Deplorable, Hapless, Poor, Pitiable, Abject, Pathetic, Pitiful, Woeful, Wretched

Shabby, Wretched, Scant, Pathetic, Feeble, Minuscule, Miserly, Pitiful, Worthless, Miserable, Trifling, Meagre, Negligible, Measly, Meager

Uncomfortable, Paltry, Misfortunate, Meager, Sad, Unhappy, Deplorable, Hapless, Poor, Pitiable, Abject, Pathetic, Pitiful, Woeful, Wretched

Some states, like Arizona and Florida, have paltry exemptions.
Maori sold land to the British for paltry sums.
SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial.
SYN: Trifling, trite, common, unimportant, useless, nugatory, paltry, inconsiderable.
Many objected to what they considered a paltry penalty.
Well apparently the paltry amount of money Mr.
Great Depression despite the paltry social service measures.
But such riches were about to seem paltry.
We now rate this trail a paltry zero.
Is it worth investing for such paltry returns?

You quoted Coulter saying women were miserable leaders.
Dogs with hair and cats make him miserable.
How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two.
Never did ambition, never did public animosities, engage men against one another in such miserable hostilities, in such miserable calamities.
Then they realized that they were still miserable or that made them miserable even.
Their mission on earth is to attempt to destroy the souls of men and make them miserable as they themselves are miserable.
While you feel miserable, you could make others more miserable.
He was Burgermeister Meisterburger, the miserable mayor of the miserable town.
Dry but miserable, he makes everyone around him miserable also.
She was miserable, I was miserable, my older daughter was miserable.