measly

adj

1. Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms).

   “Then take five or six apples, pick out the cores and fill up the holes thus made with flour of brimstone; stop up the holes and cast in the apples to the measly hog.”

2. Of a person: infected with measles.

   “A measly boy, he looked like a tramp, probably one of the street boys from the village, just walked up here and made himself at home, and when I told him to leave, he wouldn't.”

3. (figuratively, informal)Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount.

   “For one whole day's work all I was given was twenty measly pounds.”

   “The visiting tourists eagerly forked over a measly two dollars per group to their guides as payment for their services. This amount was measly sum to the givers, but a princely sum to the takers.”

   “So it wasn't a hotel, as I said in my novel, just a measly motel. But to me it was like the First measly motel, and I remember laughing about the things I was saying straight from my unconscious to both his and God's ear.”