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👎 Very bad 🐛 Full of lice
lousy

lousy

9 7.4
Covered with lice on the hair or body
  • adjective
  • /ˈlaʊzi/
translation icon : piojoso
  • Let's talk about the lousy job you've done.
  • lousy weather

Examples

  • - This place is lousy with saboteurs.

    The Outsider (1997)

  • I mean, this town's lousy with beautiful women.

    Passion Play (2011)

  • This whole place is really lousy with birds.

    Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)

  • This place is lousy with your fingerprints.

    Déjà Vu (2006)

  • Also, Detroit has a lousy climate, relatively.

    Blog text (19)

  • This town is lousy with bookworms.

    Enemies, a Love Story (1989)

  • The old mattress was lousy with lice, making it impossible to sleep comfortably.

  • After camping for a week, I discovered that my sleeping bag was lousy with pests.

  • They realized the used furniture they bought was lousy with bedbugs.

Synonyms

buggy
vslousy
1 3.8

Full of small insects like mosquitoes that bite or annoy you

refers specifically to infestation by one small parasitic insect
vermicious
vslousy
  • Archaic
9.9

Infested with worms or small pests that harm things

is limited to infestation by a specific small parasitic insect

Antonyms

clean
∞ 1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

healthy
695 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

Compounds

lousy service
  • Informal
1 3.9

Help from staff that leaves customers unhappy

Surface Forms

lousy positive
lousier comparative
lousiest superlative

Morphology

lousy = louse (transparent) = louse + y

Direct descriptive adjective meaning 'infested with lice' formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-y' to 'louse'.

Etymology

Lousy comes from the word louse, which means 'a small bug that lives on people', and the ending -y means 'full of'. So it originally meant 'full of lice'.