adjective. Contemptibly small; meager.

adjective. Infected with measles.

Infected with measles or the measle, as an animal or its flesh, especially pork.

Good-for-nothing; miserable; wretched; contemptible.

adjective. Infected with measles.

adjective. Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.

adjective. Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly insufficient or bad.

adjective. Small in amount, contemptibly so.

adjective. Infected with measles

adjective. Infected with larval tapeworms

adjective. Infected with tricinae

adjective. contemptibly small in amount

"The doctor returned to the captain, and said, "that there was no doubt but that the pig was measly, which was a complaint very frequent on board ships, particularly in hot climates, where all pork became _measly_ -- one great reason for its there proving so unwholesome.""

meager  meagerly  meagre  scrimpy  stingy  

backhanded  ballsy  five-thousand-dollar  flop-eared  kirkyard  

abject  abominable  allergic  anemic  apoplectic  

measlier  measliest