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Answer for the clue "Pathetically small ", 6 letters:
measly

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Word definitions for measly in dictionaries

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Etymology 1 a. Small in amount, contemptibly so. Etymology 2 a. 1 Infected with measles 2 Infected with larval tapeworms 3 Infected with trichinae

Usage examples of measly.

I got you out for six measly reives, though I was prepared to pay one or two more.

Howard Carnes slapped his cards downa measly aces and foursand reached for the pitcher.

If he made the Comtesse his wife, then Simon could keep Darrow Hall, and the measly fortune which went with it.

I thought about what Jenks had said about risking death by a bee sting for a pair of measly flower boxes.

If I had had to buy in the Exchange the measly fifty-eight pounds of stuff they had let me bring with me, it would have cost-I'm telling the truth!

While the guy made it up and shoved it on a plate with three measly potato chips and a sliver of pickle you could barely see, I searched through my wallet, opened my change purse, counted out silver, got to $1.

The emasculatory effect was to limit the number of machine guns in nationwide circulation to a measly 127,000, most of which are probably in Hialeah.

He descends into the colored neighborhood each and every Sunday morning because, as he tells me, that is the best time to catch those unwilling to fork over the ten or fifteen measly cents necessary to meet their weekly premium payments.

When it comes to politicians, we're not talking about a few measly seats under the press box.

This year taxpayers spent $32 million running a train for a measly 14,000 daily two-way riders.

A measly throw weight in terms of the big birds, but devastating nonetheless to any object, either living or inert, within a one-mile radius of ground zero.