A measly tip. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
You have to care, otherwise you wouldn't work so hard to save one "measly" animal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
I am enjoying the WSJ and all of the other hacks/pundits yammering about his 'measly' 30mil looking like complete idiots. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Money: $50 Million Raised For Primary, But It Doesn't Matter] Reference
If you ask me, she deserved more than a "measly" Oscar nod. From Wordnik.com. [Box Office Prophets] Reference
Edinburgh will vote over the next few weeks over a "measly" offer. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Edinburgh to vote for industrial action over what it calls a "measly" pay offer. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Unite dismissed the offer as "measly", given that its members had accepted a pay freeze last year. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
BAA as firefighters, security guards and ground staff voted on a company pay offer that the union derided as "measly". From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Unite dismissed the offer as "measly" and said a bigger rise was justified because its members accepted a pay freeze last year. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
America step up its "measly" efforts to combat global warming - or risk jeopardising an international deal to avoid catastrophic. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Beijing sending top trouble-shooter] Reference
Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports to vote for industrial action over what it calls BAA's "measly" pay offer. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The Deputy Prime Minister attacked the 'measly' two weeks he was given when his third son was born as he gave a major speech on the family. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"measly" value of the increase (where do you draw the line?). From Wordnik.com. [Daily Tar Heel RSS] Reference
So Emma Thompson shaved her head for a measly TV movie. From Wordnik.com. [From Broadway To Boob Tube] Reference
Banks 'share of total U.S. lending is a measly 15 percent. From Wordnik.com. [So Who Needs A Megabank?] Reference
Greenspan = Belatedly raises interest rate by measly quarter point. From Wordnik.com. [CONVENTIONAL WISDOM] Reference
On the political Richter scale the election registered a measly 3.5. From Wordnik.com. [That'll Teach The Rascais] Reference
That winner was the FDNY, besting the NYPD by a measly eight points. From Wordnik.com. [Cookoff Pits FDNY vs. NYPD] Reference
That measly number was somehow not included in Clinton's explanation of her support. From Wordnik.com. [A Tax Holiday to Nowhere] Reference
A measly pay-check and the dubious benefit of her own company and no other for months on end. From Wordnik.com. [Shutterbug In The Shadows] Reference
Louisiana, where the past two commissioners have gotten jail time, condoned a measly 23-cent payout. From Wordnik.com. [The Regulators' Boogie] Reference
(If you live in a typical suburb, brace yourself: My house rated a measly three out of 100 on this ranking.). From Wordnik.com. [Driving Down Real Estate] Reference
Last year the system received a measly 2 percent boost in funds, which failed even to account for inflation. From Wordnik.com. [A Not-So-Safe Haven] Reference
Neither do their measly profit margins: PCs are now commodities fit for only the leanest of manufacturers, such as Dell. From Wordnik.com. [The Boringness Of Computers] Reference
Billy Wilder, whose Oscars numbered a measly two, put it only slightly differently: "I don't make cinema, I make movies.". From Wordnik.com. [Cut! And That's A Wrap!] Reference
A measly three ingredients is the limit Rozanne Gold and Andrew Schloss set for themselves; salt, pepper and water don't count. From Wordnik.com. [The Downsizing Of Dinner] Reference
Annika Sorenstam won 11 tour events of the 23 she entered (and two more in Europe) compared to a measly 5 for 18 for Mr. Woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Best In Sports] Reference
I do not have many degrees, just one actually, and none in international relations (a measly B.A. in journalism from NYU is all). From Wordnik.com. [Bad Shakespeare] Reference
"Scientists will know that every phenomenon must be explainable in terms of this measly list" -- which will fit on a single CD-ROM. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding The Human Body] Reference
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