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measly

ˈmizli
WordNet
  1. (adj) measly
    contemptibly small in amount "a measly tip","the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief","a paltry wage","almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. measly
    (Zoöl) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
  2. measly
    Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly insufficient or bad; as, a measly few dollars for all that work.
  3. measly
    Infected with measles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. measly
    Infected with measles or the measle, as an animal or its flesh, especially pork.
  2. measly
    Good-for-nothing; miserable; wretched; contemptible.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Measly
    (adj.) infected with measles: good for nothing, miserable
Usage in the news

Five measly points may not seem like a lot to you…but it's the idea behind it that should you make you recoil with disgust. nj1015.com

Couch potatoes know how difficult it is to pick just one or two programs to follow all season with the measly two-tuner DVR from their cable supplier. electronichouse.com

Americans don't use measly vacation time. kesq.com

How A $250 Billion Allegation Turned Into A Measly $340 Million Settlement. forbes.com

Kris Jenner on Kim Kardashian's Divorce: "What's a Measly Little 72 Days.". usmagazine.com

All the guts, and a lot less glory, but for one measly win. cleveland.com

A measly drizzle of rain falls. marcoislandflorida.com

Tired of your measly 5GB per month on Verizon and AT&T. pcmag.com

Perry's film brought in $11 million, while Berry's celebrity studded SciFi flick took in a measly $9.4 million. blackenterprise.com

Let's take a page from those Tennessee firemen we heard about a few times last year – the ones who stood idly by as houses burned to the ground because their owners had refused to pay a measly $75 fee. forbes.com

Forget that measly 6-inch touchpanel. electronichouse.com

It's Not Easy Making Do With a Measly Million. nytimes.com

When Reyes was 21, he played just 53 big-league games and posted a measly.271 on-base percentage. nj.com

Five were fair-caught inside the Eagles' 10-yard line - not to mention another one against Baltimore that Johnson nabbed at the 3-yard line and mustered 3 measly yards. philly.com

Humans, but only by a few measly seconds. theatlantic.com

Usage in scientific papers

Channel 10 is especially notable: here Planck should be able to produce a catalog with around 40,000 sources, undoubtedly useful in its own right, as compared to a measly 300 without filtering.
Removing point sources from CMB maps

Whereas two identical data sets only give a measly factor of √2 improvement in error bars when combined, the gain factor was found to exceed 10 in this case.
Cosmic complementarity: combining CMB and supernova observations

Usage in literature

They'll take your youth, all your strength and energy, and give you a measly living in exchange. "At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern" by Myrtle Reed

You handed me a measly thousand. "'Firebrand' Trevison" by Charles Alden Seltzer

I remembered taking his measly solitaire pack out of his pocket at the Halfway, and wished I had brought them along with me. "The La Chance Mine Mystery" by Susan Carleton Jones

What's our measly salary compared with what they get? "Baseball Joe Around the World" by Lester Chadwick

Get every measly thing he can think of. "The Ranch at the Wolverine" by B. M. Bower

Measly pork has little kernels in the fat, and is unhealthy and dangerous food. "Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six" by Juliet Corson

Thirty years have I fought for country and king, and now in my blind old age I'm to be sent packing from a measly public-'ouse? "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV" by Robert Louis Stevenson

I'll bet they give you a measly fifty to-morrow, Evan. "A Canadian Bankclerk" by J. P. Buschlen

I hope there hain't no more measly hounds around. "Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign" by John McElroy

Why such a measly little bunch? "A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F." by Rutherford G. Montgomery