Paltry
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: trashy, trivial, of little value meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling
Miserable
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
Example sentence: No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.