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measly
[ mee-zlee ]
adjective
- Informal.
- contemptibly small, meager, or slight:
They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work.
- wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory:
a measly performance.
- infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh.
- pertaining to or resembling measles.
measly
/ ˈmiːzlɪ /
adjective
- informal.meagre in quality or quantity
- (of meat) measled
- having or relating to measles
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Example Sentences
One measly year later, Pam woke to find a naked Ewing grinning at her in the shower.
When he ran for the House of Burgesses in 1755, the father of our nation got a measly 40 votes.
His profit margin on the quarter pounds he admitted to selling was a measly $200.
A tapestry like this was the ultimate luxury good and status symbol, worth so much more than a measly painting.
His now infamous Twitter account has a measly 186 followers.
Mr. Slocum, did you ever hear o' me pointin' s'uth for home with only a measly four hundred barrel of ile in the hold?
Dave Keeney, what boasts he's the best whalin' skipper out o' Homeport, comin' back with a measly four hundred barrel of ile!
Nature can chase the measly savage fleeing naked through the bush.
And here we are yet, each perched on a measly old slippery rock, in the middle of the rapids.
That measly little tap of yours in the last round was certainly a soporific wallop.
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