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Definition of lousy in English: lousyadjectivelousiest, lousier ˈlaʊziˈlaʊzi 1informal Very poor or bad. the service is usually lousy Example sentencesExamples - He even cried on camera during a pathetic and lousy piece of filmmaking.
- What an awful show with bad acting, lousy scripts, ridiculous effects, and poor lighting.
- In America, lousy jobs are increasing as top corporations are awash in cash.
- To be honest, most of the times the script is really lousy.
- I think when it rains and the weather's lousy they enjoy themselves even more.
- He is just making lousy excuses, as the previous Minister did.
- They are poor amid wealth and their living conditions are lousy.
- Now he says the networks are doing a lousy job of covering the world.
- No one has ever said to you, after reading the finished product, ‘You are a lousy writer.’
- ‘We only had one day of summer - the weather was lousy,’ complains Alex.
- It should come as no surprise that the result is a poor selection of expensive lousy telephone security products.
- As usual, it's overwhelmingly the rich who get the pleasure while the poor put up with lousy services and fares which have rocketed since deregulation.
- I'm really lousy at writing emails, as you can probably see.
- Thus, the fight to improve lousy schools so that poor, bright children stand a better chance of getting to good universities on merit is utterly undermined.
- Do you think people are poor because of lousy educational opportunities, wildly unequal social conditions and layer upon layer of middle-class privilege?
- We have had a few lousy weeks of wet weather mostly.
- Initially, customers groused about a grinding gear shift, poor air-conditioning, and lousy tires.
- They were basically filling in for my absent father and were pretty lousy all the way around.
- His grades were awful, his phone bills enormous, his punctuality for meetings pathetic, his attitude lousy.
- It's a perfectly good car, and it will serve you well when the weather is lousy.
Synonyms awful, terrible, appalling, abysmal, very bad, atrocious, desperate, unspeakable, frightful, miserable poor, incompetent, inadequate, unsatisfactory, inferior, not up to scratch, careless, second-rate, shoddy, slovenly informal rotten, pathetic, useless, hopeless British informal duff, poxy, rubbish, pants, a load of pants - 1.1 Used to express anger, contempt, or annoyance.
Example sentencesExamples - But did you really expect I would recount my life after one lousy hello?
- I'd been here three weeks and hadn't even bough one lousy souvenir.
- If we want to discourage violence and aggression in our country, we need to look at its causes and I doubt that all this anger stemmed from a few lousy films!
- Of course, after that incident, she seemed less than inclined to go see those lousy, no-good idiots anyway.
- You enjoy seeing me suffer, don't you, you no-good, lousy harpy of a nurse?
Synonyms despicable, contemptible, dirty, low, mean, base, low-down, hateful, detestable, loathsome, vile, wicked, vicious informal rotten, no-good - 1.2predicative Unwell.
Example sentencesExamples - I felt lousy last night (stomach trouble) and woke up this morning with a head and backache, crampy and an upset stomach.
- I was late home tonight and felt really lousy with this head cold.
- If you get a little behind each day, by the end of the week you'll be severely dehydrated, feeling lousy, and riding poorly.
- "You know I was feeling pretty lousy before you showed up in my office this afternoon.
- I was feeling lousy and sick and rowed as badly as I had at the beginning of the week.
- Even while feeling lousy, it's hard to stay inside when the weather is so beautiful.
- I came down with a cold the day Max and I flew out of Seattle, and I was very cranky to think that I was going to be sick and feeling lousy all weekend.
- I felt lousy this morning, and then I felt high on cold medication when I finally took something for it after trying everything else.
- Within a few days I felt lousy, weak, listless. I ran a low-grade fever for a few days, and my head hurt.
- So, I've feeling pretty lousy for about a week, a cold, back pain, the works.
- When you cut your carbs too low, you may feel really lousy.
Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, sick, nauseous, nauseated, queasy, bad British off, off colour informal rough, rotten, awful, out of sorts, under the weather British informal grotty, ropy vulgar slang crappy
2Infested with lice. Example sentencesExamples - He was lousy with lice. If I hadn't hugged him he would have bothered me all afternoon.
- This camp was lousy with lice and fleas, and it wasn't long before I was as lousy as the rest of the boys there.
Synonyms lice-infested, lice-ridden rare pedicular, pediculous - 2.1lousy withinformal Teeming with (something regarded as undesirable)
the town is lousy with tourists Example sentencesExamples - Every corner of this town, every street is lousy with associative action.
- If I'm lucky, I'll see deer, rabbits, frogs, and find a treasure trove of the wild blackberry bushes their property is lousy with.
- She was in a small, richly furnished room, lousy with velvet pillows in jewel tones, with deep gray draperies.
- In case you haven't noticed, Jack, the place is lousy with oak trees.
- The area was lousy with saloons, dime museums, oyster bars, minstrel theaters, and establishments promising women in varying states of undress.
- This town is lousy with cows.
- The collection of pendant necklaces, shimmery bracelets, and delicate jeweled earrings in pale shades of purple, blue, and pink is absolutely lousy with girliness.
- In the past two years, motorcycle sales surged as aging baby boomers, women, and suits lousy with disposable income looked to capture a bit of the two-wheel lifestyle.
- The online job postings were lousy with start-ups touting their work hard/play hard philosophy.
- Granted, no doubt the military have long since cracked the GSM encryption, and more importantly the core network is probably lousy with official bugs.
- There was poets' pub, lousy with drunks and soft with words, glittering with ideas and familiarity and mutual admiration.
- And the kid's neighborhood is lousy with cash.
- Does the relationship between passive safety and active safety change when the roads of the nation become lousy with S.U.V.s?
- The New York Times editorial page is lousy with academic politics today.
- The world is lousy with places claiming to be another Silicon Valley.
Synonyms full of, crowded with, overrun by, overflowing with, swarming with, teeming with, alive with, crawling with, hopping with, bristling with, thronged with, packed with, rife with, well supplied with, awash with, abounding in, abundant in, knee-deep in, rolling in
Derivatives adverb I'd rather be comfy and endure a little prodding than be lousily uncomfortable the entire flight. Example sentencesExamples - My advice is to call them up and tell them exactly how lousily you were treated.
- I was feeling really lousily depressed for a while there.
- He admits to some annoyance when a tenor or soprano ‘who has been singing lousily all evening gets up there and hits a high note and brings the house down.’
- It would be clear to most readers that the government has set itself a mission impossible with this highly controversial lousily drafted law.
noun ˈlaʊzɪnəsˈlaʊzinəs Of course, you won't achieve any degree of lousiness unless you do this to excess. Example sentencesExamples - The silk produced by the bivoltine races of silkworms possesses superior neatness and cleanliness, is without lousiness and has high tensile strength and stands to the international A grade.
- 20 animals from a mob of 323 mixed age merino ewes displaying obvious symptoms of lousiness, such as rubbed out flanks and matted fleeces, were inspected for lice.
- Despite its visual coolness and interesting non-linear and cyclical narrative style, as an enjoyable movie it fails, mostly due to its overall lousiness.
- The fact that it was only the second day of his life in no way diminished it's lousiness.
Rhymes blowsy, Dalhousie, drowsy, frowzy, housey-housey Definition of lousy in US English: lousyadjectiveˈlouzēˈlaʊzi 1informal Very poor or bad; disgusting. the service is usually lousy Example sentencesExamples - They are poor amid wealth and their living conditions are lousy.
- Initially, customers groused about a grinding gear shift, poor air-conditioning, and lousy tires.
- I'm really lousy at writing emails, as you can probably see.
- It should come as no surprise that the result is a poor selection of expensive lousy telephone security products.
- ‘We only had one day of summer - the weather was lousy,’ complains Alex.
- What an awful show with bad acting, lousy scripts, ridiculous effects, and poor lighting.
- He even cried on camera during a pathetic and lousy piece of filmmaking.
- I think when it rains and the weather's lousy they enjoy themselves even more.
- Thus, the fight to improve lousy schools so that poor, bright children stand a better chance of getting to good universities on merit is utterly undermined.
- To be honest, most of the times the script is really lousy.
- Now he says the networks are doing a lousy job of covering the world.
- In America, lousy jobs are increasing as top corporations are awash in cash.
- Do you think people are poor because of lousy educational opportunities, wildly unequal social conditions and layer upon layer of middle-class privilege?
- As usual, it's overwhelmingly the rich who get the pleasure while the poor put up with lousy services and fares which have rocketed since deregulation.
- No one has ever said to you, after reading the finished product, ‘You are a lousy writer.’
- It's a perfectly good car, and it will serve you well when the weather is lousy.
- His grades were awful, his phone bills enormous, his punctuality for meetings pathetic, his attitude lousy.
- We have had a few lousy weeks of wet weather mostly.
- He is just making lousy excuses, as the previous Minister did.
- They were basically filling in for my absent father and were pretty lousy all the way around.
Synonyms awful, terrible, appalling, abysmal, very bad, atrocious, desperate, unspeakable, frightful, miserable - 1.1 Ill; in poor physical condition.
Example sentencesExamples - I came down with a cold the day Max and I flew out of Seattle, and I was very cranky to think that I was going to be sick and feeling lousy all weekend.
- If you get a little behind each day, by the end of the week you'll be severely dehydrated, feeling lousy, and riding poorly.
- Within a few days I felt lousy, weak, listless. I ran a low-grade fever for a few days, and my head hurt.
- So, I've feeling pretty lousy for about a week, a cold, back pain, the works.
- I felt lousy last night (stomach trouble) and woke up this morning with a head and backache, crampy and an upset stomach.
- I was feeling lousy and sick and rowed as badly as I had at the beginning of the week.
- I was late home tonight and felt really lousy with this head cold.
- "You know I was feeling pretty lousy before you showed up in my office this afternoon.
- I felt lousy this morning, and then I felt high on cold medication when I finally took something for it after trying everything else.
- When you cut your carbs too low, you may feel really lousy.
- Even while feeling lousy, it's hard to stay inside when the weather is so beautiful.
Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, sick, nauseous, nauseated, queasy, bad
2Infested with lice. Example sentencesExamples - This camp was lousy with lice and fleas, and it wasn't long before I was as lousy as the rest of the boys there.
- He was lousy with lice. If I hadn't hugged him he would have bothered me all afternoon.
Synonyms lice-infested, lice-ridden - 2.1lousy withinformal predicative Teeming with (something regarded as bad or undesirable)
the town is lousy with tourists Example sentencesExamples - Every corner of this town, every street is lousy with associative action.
- If I'm lucky, I'll see deer, rabbits, frogs, and find a treasure trove of the wild blackberry bushes their property is lousy with.
- She was in a small, richly furnished room, lousy with velvet pillows in jewel tones, with deep gray draperies.
- The collection of pendant necklaces, shimmery bracelets, and delicate jeweled earrings in pale shades of purple, blue, and pink is absolutely lousy with girliness.
- This town is lousy with cows.
- Granted, no doubt the military have long since cracked the GSM encryption, and more importantly the core network is probably lousy with official bugs.
- There was poets' pub, lousy with drunks and soft with words, glittering with ideas and familiarity and mutual admiration.
- The New York Times editorial page is lousy with academic politics today.
- And the kid's neighborhood is lousy with cash.
- In the past two years, motorcycle sales surged as aging baby boomers, women, and suits lousy with disposable income looked to capture a bit of the two-wheel lifestyle.
- In case you haven't noticed, Jack, the place is lousy with oak trees.
- The world is lousy with places claiming to be another Silicon Valley.
- Does the relationship between passive safety and active safety change when the roads of the nation become lousy with S.U.V.s?
- The area was lousy with saloons, dime museums, oyster bars, minstrel theaters, and establishments promising women in varying states of undress.
- The online job postings were lousy with start-ups touting their work hard/play hard philosophy.
Synonyms full of, crowded with, overrun by, overflowing with, swarming with, teeming with, alive with, crawling with, hopping with, bristling with, thronged with, packed with, rife with, well supplied with, awash with, abounding in, abundant in, knee-deep in, rolling in
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