lousy

[lousĀ·y]

Lousy things are terrible. The lousy things in life are the ones you complain about: your lousy job, the lousy weather, and the lousy pizza you had for lunch.

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Infested with lice.

Adjective S.
infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

Adjective S.
very bad; "a lousy play"; "it''s a stinking world"

Adjective S.
vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"


a.
Infested with lice.

a.
Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.


Lousy

Lous"y , a. 1. Infested with lice. 2. Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar]
Such lousy learning as this is.

Infested with lice.

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Usage Examples

After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

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