lousy
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈlaʊzi/
- Informal
- You can have a really lousy teacher who's a great drill sergeant.
- a lousy job
- a lousy teacher
- a lousy economy
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- And, and that that's what we're seeing and that's why we're seeing such lousy results.
- The big one was after the first year in college, I had lousy grades.
- Most paintings, most sculpture, most literature, most music is lousy.
- I don't anticipate there's, there's a lot of really lousy, a lot of lousy schools right here in New York.
- California has a long history we see on the other coast of good recipes and lousy food.
Examples
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Frankly, if you have a lousy car, it's really hard to build infrastructure.
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All it can take is a bad review, an ad not run, a lousy cover, or a shoddy production job.
Academic text (2016) -
Well, what other lousy things happened on our watch?
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It's just a lousy old church group.
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Look, I have one job on this lousy ship.
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You got lousy taste in men, kid.
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That strategy has produced lousy outcomes.
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The market's still lousy, so I'll give you a real break on the price.
Fiction book (1991) -
Listen, Clark, I know this is lousy timing, but I think I better tell you before you read about it tomorrow.
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The food at that restaurant was so lousy that we couldn't finish our meal.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not good in quality or below the usual standard
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
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9.9
Very bad or low quality, used to show strong dislike
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1.0
Very bad and unpleasant to experience
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5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
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5.3
Very bad or unpleasant
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6.7
Low quality and unpleasant
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7.1
Sticky and unpleasant to touch or smell
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3.9
So bad or weak that people feel angry and look down on it
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3.8
Very bad or of poor quality
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7.0
Being very bad and of low quality
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7.1
Very bad or of poor quality
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7.2
Very bad or morally wrong so people strongly dislike it
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9.3
Very bad or disappointing to experience
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7.7
Causing strong disgust or hatred in people
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8.2
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel strong dislike
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9.9
Very bad or disappointing
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5.5
Very bad in quality or condition
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6.0
Dirty and not good quality
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8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
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9.2
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
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8.4
Very bad and disappointing to experience
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9.9
Very bad and of little value
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9.9
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel disgusted
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6.7
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
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9.3
Of very poor quality and not good
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
Not very good in quality or condition
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Etymology
Lousy later gained a second meaning. Because being 'lousy' with lice was a terrible condition, people began to use lousy to mean 'very bad' or 'despicable', which is how we use it today.