Measly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Slang Contemptibly small; meager: gave the parking attendant a measly tip.
  • adj. Infected with measles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Small in amount, contemptibly so.
  • adj. Infected with measles
  • adj. Infected with larval tapeworms
  • adj. Infected with tricinae
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Infected with measles.
  • adj. Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
  • adj. Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly insufficient or bad.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Infected with measles or the measle, as an animal or its flesh, especially pork.
  • Good-for-nothing; miserable; wretched; contemptible.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. contemptibly small in amount
  • Equivalent
    stingy    meagre    scrimpy    meagerly    meager   
    Variant
    measlier    measliest   
    Synonym
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    meager   
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