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US
/ˈmizɫi/
]
[ UK /mˈiːzli/ ]
[ UK /mˈiːzli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
contemptibly small in amount
almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans
a measly tip
a paltry wage
the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief
How To Use measly In A Sentence
- He had made that long trek here for a few measly minutes of conversation.
- Still, the UN peacekeeping budget of US2. 17 billion dollars is described as "measly" compared with America's staggering US350 billion military budget for this year. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Did I say a few measly hours ago that I was homesick?
- They're soggy, with measly amounts of filling. Times, Sunday Times
- Even if 2,326 votes polled by Jammu State Morcha were to be added to the BJP tally, it added up to a measly 5,493.
- I feel somewhat like a measly ant pestering a magnificent tiger who has chosen to sleep on an anthill.
- The tapeworms, common in many animals and often occurring in man, the roundworms of which the trichina (Fig. 3) that causes "measly" pork is a representative, are familiar examples. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
- She claimed she paid her house cleaner 200 pesos per day, with a kind of resentful disdain as to why one would even consider such a measly wage. A decent wage.
- I am enjoying the WSJ and all of the other hacks/pundits yammering about his 'measly' 30mil looking like complete idiots. Obama's Money: $50 Million Raised For Primary, But It Doesn't Matter
- But the price had skyrocketed so much that her entire savings converted into just a few measly taels.