Rick Bass

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

American Writer

Al Green

I started recording in '67. In the first part of '68, my first single was 'Backup Train.' That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.

American Musician

Mark Ruffalo

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

American Actor

Antonio Garcia Martinez

All the early Facebook employees have their story of the moment when they saw the light and realized that Facebook wasn't some measly social network like MySpace but a dream of a different human experience.

Timothy Noah

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

American Journalist

Indicates dissatisfaction or disapproval towards the smallness of something.

Negative Implication

Used to stress that something is insufficient for needs or expectations.

Inadequacy Emphasis

Conveys a mocking or belittling attitude towards the quantity or quality.

Disparaging Tone

Carries frustration or disappointment regarding inadequacy.

Emotional Tone

Suggests what is provided falls short of what was expected or promised.

Expectation Context

Often implies a comparison with what others have or receive.

Comparative Scale

 on us and using some my leaves for the widow from the bush which could measly make some form and just bet in the rain and come back home in the village being very clean boys you know and our mothers to just look at us like this shake their heads and the only one thing I remember

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 calls for a measly 20 million dollars of R&D in geothermal energy. It is almost criminal that we are not investing more in energy research in this country. And I am really afraid that it's absolutely not enough.

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 excites their wild senses and for such intelligent animals you can't beat a rule trail while we are obsessed with visual landmarks they focus only on scents we have a measly 6 million smell

Measly

Negative Implication

Inadequacy Emphasis

Disparaging Tone

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