1) Annoyingly small 2) Contemptibly slight 3) Contemptibly small 4) Contemptibly small in amount 5) Contemptibly small like a tip 6) Far from fulsome 7) Far from liberal 8) Grossly inadequate 9) Insultingly small 10) Laughably few 11) Like a 10-cent tip 12) Like a 3 percent tip 13) Like a pittance 14) Like an insulting tip 1) Meager 2) Meagerly 3) Meagre 4) Mere 5) Paltry 6) Puny 7) Scant 8) Scanty 9) Stingy 10) Ungenerous 11) Worthless 
• (a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef. • (a.) Infected with measles.
Mea'sly adjective 1. Infected with measles. 2. (Zoology) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef. 
Type: Term Pronunciation: mēz′lē Definitions: 1. Pertaining to pork or beef infected with the cysticerci of the tapeworms Taenia solium or Taenia saginata, respectively.
Measly: The word measly can refer to measles, and, thence, to spotty and, thence, to something that is of little value. In medicine, the measly tapeworm is the pork tapeworm (T. solium) which can be contracted through eating measly pork (pork infected with the larval form of T. solium).
Measly is slang for contemptible.
[adj] - contemptibly small in amount
miserable adjective contemptibly small in amount; `a measly tip`; `the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief`; `a paltry wage`; `almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans`
[Literary terms] contemptibly small in amount