measly 的定义
mea·sli·er, mea·sli·est.
- Informal. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work.wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance.
- infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh.
- pertaining to or resembling measles.
measly 近义词
skimpy
更多measly例句
- Home teams favored by three or more points don’t provide value, either, with a measly 22-22 record against the spread in that span.
- Emails obtained by VOSD attest to Manchester’s unhappiness over the deal and suggest he tried to spite the city in whatever measly way he could.
- One measly year later, Pam woke to find a naked Ewing grinning at her in the shower.
- When he ran for the House of Burgesses in 1755, the father of our nation got a measly 40 votes.
- His profit margin on the quarter pounds he admitted to selling was a measly $200.
- A tapestry like this was the ultimate luxury good and status symbol, worth so much more than a measly painting.
- His now infamous Twitter account has a measly 186 followers.
- Mr. Slocum, did you ever hear o' me pointin' s'uth for home with only a measly four hundred barrel of ile in the hold?
- Dave Keeney, what boasts he's the best whalin' skipper out o' Homeport, comin' back with a measly four hundred barrel of ile!
- Nature can chase the measly savage fleeing naked through the bush.
- And here we are yet, each perched on a measly old slippery rock, in the middle of the rapids.
- That measly little tap of yours in the last round was certainly a soporific wallop.