measly flesh
1measly — /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… …
2measly miserable paltry — Meager Mea ger, Meagre Mea gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager… …
3measly — /ˈmizli / (say meezlee) adjective (measlier, measliest) 1. infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh. 2. relating to or resembling measles. 3. (of beef or pork) infected with cysts or tapeworms of the genus Taenia. 4. Colloquial wretchedly …
4exiguous — Meager Mea ger, Meagre Mea gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager… …
5hardscrabble marginal — Meager Mea ger, Meagre Mea gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager… …
6Meager — Mea ger, Meagre Mea gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager were his …
7Meagre — Meager Mea ger, Meagre Mea gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager… …
8Financial history of the Dutch Republic — describes the history of the interrelated development of financial institutions in the Dutch Republic. The rapid economic development of the country after the Dutch Revolt in the years 1585 1620, described in Economic History of the Netherlands… …
9meager — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. spare, scanty, sparse, poor; lean, gaunt. See insufficiency, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Thin] Syn. lank, lanky, gaunt, starved, emaciated, lean, bony, slender, slim, spare, little,… …
10spare — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. be lenient; save; refrain, abstain, forbear, withhold; exempt; give up, surrender, forgo, relinquish. See leniency, exemption, store, relinquishment.Ant. condemn, keep. adj. lean, gaunt, bony;… …
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