lousy
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈlaʊzi/
- Informal
:
pésimo
- You can have a really lousy teacher who's a great drill sergeant.
- a lousy job
- a lousy teacher
- a lousy economy
Pressing snooze is a lousy way to start your day.
- Pressing snooze is a lousy way to start your day.
- 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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1.0
Very bad and unpleasant to experience
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5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
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9.9
Very bad or low quality, used to show strong dislike
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6.7
Low quality and unpleasant
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3.9
So bad or weak that people feel angry and look down on it
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7.1
Sticky and unpleasant to touch or smell
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3.8
Very bad or of poor 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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8.2
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel strong dislike
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7.7
Causing strong disgust or hatred in people
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7.0
Being very bad and of low quality
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9.9
Very bad or disappointing
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5.3
Very bad or unpleasant
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8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
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6.0
Dirty and not good quality
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5.5
Very bad in quality or condition
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8.4
Very bad and disappointing to experience
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9.2
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel disgusted
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
Not very good in quality or condition
Very bad and of little value
Of very poor quality and not good
Antonyms
Compounds
How Bad
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Morphology
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.