Meaning of measly

mea•sly

1. They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work.
1. contemptibly small, meager, or slight:They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work.
2. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory:a measly performance.
2. infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh.
3. pertaining to or resembling measles.