measliness

Example Sentences

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He scored more points and played more minutes than anyone on the court in a game that ended 87-82, the measliest winning margin in a men’s or women’s final since 1972.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2021

She adorns the measliest note with proud individuality, and in this recording caresses and enriches works ranging from Handel's Care selve through Weber's Leise, leise to Puccini's Senza mamma.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fellow like you would get ten men arrested before he fooled the measliest cub spy in the Third Section.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham

“It’s the meanest, low-downest, dirtiest, measliest trick they’ve ever tried to do, and that’s sayin’ a whole heap!

From With Hoops of Steel by Smith, Dan

Naw, sirree-bob!" was the impolite response across the fence, "them 'bout the measliest tales they is.

From Miss Minerva and William Green Hill by Calhoun, Frances Boyd