adj. (vulgar).—Contemptible. [Cf. var. dial. MEASLED = diseased.]
1864. M. E. BRADDON, Henry Dunbar, xxviii. ‘And to think that the government of this country should have the audacity to offer a MEASLY hundred pounds or so for the discovery of a great crime!’
1884. W. E. HENLEY and R. L. STEVENSON, Admiral Guinea (‘Three Plays,’ p. 203). Now in my blind old age I’m to be sent packing from a MEASLY public ’ouse?
