minimum vs paltry

minimum

adj
  • To the lowest degree. 

noun
  • The smallest amount. 

  • He always tries to get away with doing the minimum. 

  • The lowest limit. 

  • A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). 

  • The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution. 

  • A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set. 

paltry

adj
  • Of little monetary worth. 

  • Trashy, trivial, of little value. 

  • Despicable; contemptibly unimportant. 

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