measliness
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Saw a dress-parade of the regiment on duty here, which would have shamed the cadets for measliness of turnout.
From History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: A prisoner's diary A paper read at the officers' reunion in Boston, May 11, 1877 by Quincy, Samuel M.