Pelting Definition

pĕltĭng
adjective
Mean; miserly; paltry.
Webster's New World
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verb

Present participle of pelt.

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Noun

Singular:
pelting
Plural:
peltings

Origin of Pelting

  • Perhaps from dialectal pelt trash

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pelting Sentence Examples

  • The storm roared in through the ceiling, hail and water pelting her body while thunder deafened her.

  • Rusty is a little trickier, but you can distract him by pelting him with firecrackers first.

  • These they could not see, but they could feel them pelting the buggy top, and Jim screamed almost like a human being when a stone overtook him and struck his boney body.

  • Part of the fun is tossing obstacles into your co-players dance routines and disrupting their rhythm, which is almost but not quite as satisfying as pelting friends with obstacles in Mario Kart.

  • It remained overcast and I could hear the rain pelting the roof and a murmur of voices below.

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