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adjective

measly adj.

Infected with measles.

(Zool.) Containing larval tapeworms; said of pork and beef.

Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly insufficient or bad; as, a measly few dollars for all that work.

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Etymology of 'Measly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Measly" Quotes from Famous Books

... undecided kind of pain, which went wandering about from place to place inside of me like a strange ghost lost in Cudjo's Cave. I never knew until then what the personal sensations of a haunted house are. If only the measly thing could have made up its mind to settle down somewhere and start light housekeeping I think should have been better satisfied. I never had such an uneasy tenant. Alongside of it a woman with the moving fever would be comparatively a ...

— "Speaking of Operations--" • Irvin S. Cobb

... for himself, when he has anything to cook. He has a little garden, but it doesn't amount to much. He has no apple trees except an old one that is nearly dead and never has but a few little, measly, knerly apples on it; that's why ...

— A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays • Amy E. Blanchard

... fours," ordered Mr. Merriam. "You're the measly dog that barked at General Washington on that famous ride. Bark, you wretched yellow cur—bark, ...

— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham

... hands. I've wired the Bardsleys, telling them we've got to hurry up. It's always the way with these swells; when they want anything, they want it all in a minute. Something like ham and eggs! Rather different to the measly rasher and the antediluvian eggs from the grocer's opposite. But you don't seem to be very keen?" he added, as Nell pushed her plate away and absently took a slice of toast. "Miss the good old London air, Nell, or the appetizing smells ...

— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... contrast, and, striving with courage to belie his agitation, murmured: "Look at Erasmus. Did you ever see such a measly lot? If we can't beat that crew, Ray, my boy, we must be duffers," to emphasise which remark he tickled me under both armpits, so that, nearly jumping out of my skin, I fell forward on to Johnson, who fell forward on to White, who, having ...

— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

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