lousy
adjective
infested with lice.
lousiness
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a word derived from
lousy.
Example Sentences
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It isn’t always enough for a lousy horror comedy to splash around in its lousiness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
But wait, wait: A disparate feeling romps the minds, as if the long lousiness of the coronavirus somehow has enhanced this moment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2021
While Trenberth makes a compelling case for the lousiness of the weather, he comes at his interlocutors sideways.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2016
It’s been another lousy baseball season for hitters, worse than last year and the year before, which previously set marks for lousiness.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2014
Among cattle it is occasionally observed under systems of bad hygiene, filthiness, lousiness, overcrowding, overfeeding, excessively damp or too warm stables.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
