lousy
adjective
infested with lice.
lousiness
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a word derived from
lousy.
Example Sentences
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Do movies distract from the lousiness of reality or try to redeem it, alchemizing its awfulness into beauty?
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
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
Pediculosis: a state of lousiness, or the abnormal condition caused by the multiplication of lice on the body: sec phthiriasis.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
