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No whining about measly travel headaches with the mother of all bad-trip sagas looming on the big screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Is our celebration of a measly 250 years of continuous operation another example of American puffery?

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026

At the end of his career, right-handers at the plate batted a measly .204 against him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Energy stocks are the market’s big winners so far this year, jumping 20% when the S&P 500 is up a measly 2%.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

“But I’m sick of the way it’s always a hundred of us who wind up paying that measly twenty bucks, and you still lose another cow off the permit.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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 Abraham Cahan

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 Frances Boyd Calhoun

But this calf threw the measliest lot of runts you ever saw and finally Joe sold him for beef.

From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard