- measly adj
- Nurses who give shots do a great job, but sometimes get paid a measly salary.
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measly adj
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measly — [adj] skimpy beggarly, contemptible, insignificant, meager, mean, miserable, miserly, niggling*, paltry, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling*, pitiful, poor, puny, scanty, stingy, trifling, trivial, ungenerous, unimportant, valueless, worthless;… … New thesaurus
measly — [mēz′lē] adj. measlier, measliest 1. infected with MEASLES (sense 1 or 2) 2. Informal contemptibly slight, worthless, or skimpy … English World dictionary
measly — adj. (measlier, measliest) 1 colloq. inferior, contemptible, worthless. 2 of or affected with measles. 3 (of pork) infested with tapeworms. Etymology: MEASLES + Y(1) … Useful english dictionary
measly — [[t]mi͟ːzli[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n, oft a ADJ amount (disapproval) If you describe an amount, quantity, or size as measly, you are critical of it because it is very small or inadequate. [INFORMAL] The average British bathroom measures a… … English dictionary
Measly — The word measly can refer to measles, and, thence, to spotty and, thence, to something that is of little value. In medicine, the measly tapeworm is the pork tapeworm (T. solium) which can be contracted through eating measly pork (pork infected… … Medical dictionary
measly — /mee zlee/, adj., measlier, measliest. 1. Informal. a. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day s work. b. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance. 2. infected with measles, as an… … Universalium
measly — meas|ly [ˈmi:zli] adj informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: measly suffering from measles, spotty (17 19 centuries), from measles] very small and disappointing in size, quantity, or value used to show disapproval ▪ All I got was a measly £5 … Dictionary of contemporary English
measly — mea•sly [[t]ˈmi zli[/t]] adj. sli•er, sli•est 1) contemptibly small: a measly salary[/ex] 2) infected with measles 3) pertaining to or resembling measles • Etymology: 1685–95 … From formal English to slang
measly — mea·sly || mËɪzlɪ adj. affected with the measles; pertaining to or resembling the measles; scrappy, wretched, poor (Slang) … English contemporary dictionary
measly — [ˈmiːzli] adj informal too small … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
