castoff vs paltry

castoff

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

paltry

adj
  • Trashy, trivial, of little value. 

  • Of little monetary worth. 

  • Despicable; contemptibly unimportant. 

How often have the words castoff and paltry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )