Crossword clues for measly
measly
- Extremely slight
- Annoyingly small
- Woefully small
- Unsatisfactorily small
- Slay me (anag)
- Shamefully slight
- Pathetically tiny, as a sum of money
- Pathetically inadequate
- Like five per cent, to a server
- Like a 10-cent tip
- Grossly inadequate
- Far from fulsome
- Contemptibly small, like a tip
- Contemptibly small, as a tip
- Contemptibly small like a tip
- Contemptibly slight
- Like a pittance
- Slight
- Pathetically small
- Paltry
- Insubstantial
- Piddling
- Contemptibly small, as an amount
- Like a cheapskate's tip
- Setter: one with art on the meagre side
- Ridiculously small
- Inferior male one avoids without trouble
- Hardly generous
- Insultingly small, as a payment
- Pitifully small
- Like a 3 percent tip
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
measly \mea"sly\ (m[=e]"zly), a.
Infected with measles.
(Zo["o]l.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly insufficient or bad; as, a measly few dollars for all that work.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"affected with measles," 1680s, from measle (see measles) + -y (2); sense of "meager and contemptible" first recorded 1864 in British slang.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. Small in amount, contemptibly so. Etymology 2
a. 1 Infected with measles 2 Infected with larval tapeworms 3 Infected with trichinae
WordNet
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.