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lousy
[ lou-zee ]
adjective
- infested with lice.
- Informal.
- mean or contemptible:
That was a lousy thing to do.
- wretchedly bad; miserable:
a lousy job; I feel lousy.
lousy
/ ˈlaʊzɪ /
adjective
- slang.very mean or unpleasant
a lousy thing to do
- slang.inferior or bad
this is a lousy film
- infested with lice
- slang.foll by with
- provided with an excessive amount (of)
he's lousy with money
- full of or teeming with
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Derived Forms
- ˈlousiness, noun
- ˈlousily, adverb
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Other Words From
- lousi·ly adverb
- lousi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- lousy with, Slang. well supplied with or filled with, often to excess:
Our city is lousy with bad drivers.
I wish I were lousy with money like my boss.
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Example Sentences
Their intentions may be good, but their execution and insight are lousy.
Thailand has had a lousy track record with functioning democracy for many decades.
Peter Shumlin has been doing a lousy job and voters turned against him, even though he outspent his opponent five to one.
Not surprisingly, some around Barry Goldwater thought it was a lousy idea.
The Getaway Car is lousy with these throwaway lines and asides.
Frey's a private dick—a lousy one, reckless and careless, but still he's a dick and your story didn't go.
Got more loyalty to a lousy machine than to the whole human race.
Come one, come all—all you moth-eaten, lousy stiffs from Stiffville.
Several kinds of beetles are subject to lice, but particularly that kind called by way of eminence the lousy beetle.
And such a lousy, brawling lot of convicts I had never clapped eyes upon.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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