measly (adj.)
- abject
- abominable
- allergic
- anemic
- apoplectic
- arrant
- arthritic
- atrocious
- base
- beggarly
- bilious
- cancerous
- cheesy
- chlorotic
- colicky
- consumptive
- contemptible
- crummy
- debased
- degraded
- depraved
- despicable
- dirty
- disgusting
- dropsical
- dyspeptic
- edematous
- epileptic
- execrable
- flagrant
- foul
- fulsome
- grave
- gross
- heinous
- jerkwater
- leprous
- little
- low
- low-down
- lumpen
- malarial
- malignant
- mangy
- mean
- mingy
- miserable
- miserly
- monstrous
- nefarious
- nephritic
- neuralgic
- niggardly
- niggling
- obnoxious
- odious
- one-horse
- palsied
- paltry
- paralytic
- pathetic
- petty
- picayune
- piddling
- piffling
- pneumonic
- poky
- poor
- punk
- puny
- rachitic
- rank
- reptilian
- rheumatic
- rickety
- scabby
- scant
- scanty
- scorbutic
- scrofulous
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scummy
- scurvy
- shabby
- shoddy
- skimpy
- small
- small-time
- sparse
- squalid
- stingy
- trifling
- trivial
- tubercular
- tuberculous
- unmentionable
- vile
- wretched