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Lousy

[lou-zee]

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adjective, lous·i·er, lous·i·est.

infested with lice.

Informal.

mean or contemptible: That was a lousy thing to do.

wretchedly bad; miserable: a lousy job; I feel lousy.

Idiom

lousy with, Slang. well supplied with: lousy with money.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English lousi. See louse, -y¹

Related forms

lous·i·ly, adverb

lous·i·ness, noun

Synonyms
2a. shabby, nasty, crummy.

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Example Sentences

In other words, the sleep-deprived among us are lousy judges of our own sleep needs.

If you have great publications but lousy teaching, you'll still get tenure.

The lousy job market is, of course, not the law schools' fault.

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In other words, the sleep-deprived among us are lousy judges of our own sleep needs.

If you have great publications but lousy teaching, you'll still get tenure.

The lousy job market is, of course, not the law schools' fault.

It was a real battle getting in the right position to take the picture, and some mornings the weather was lousy.

In fact, if you really want to understand what it means to be alive, humans are a lousy choice.

If you've got lousy credit, be careful where you buy your car.

It's no secret that this is a lousy time to try to sell your business.

Yet our recipe for achieving that is an anti-intellectual witches' brew of lousy values.

Yields on short-term investments such as money-market funds and bank deposits are lousy.

The effect would have been as though a lousy cosmic golfer tore up a giant chunk of turf and sent it hurtling into orbit.

The moral of this story: half-truths doth lousy coffin-nails make.

Type-A personalities will revel in the organizational potential of this expandable roller, lousy with pockets and compartments.

People want to stop these lousy dictators from looting their countries.

The career structures for mathematicians, scientists and engineers are lousy.

Economists should have been more worried about the housing bubble and a lousy allocation of capital from the savings glut.

We've all had our share of lousy customer service and the web is full of horror stories about atrocious customer support.

The last couple of years have been lousy for the corporate takeover business.

Corporatization, absurd spending priorities, lousy faculty pay and conditions.

But it will expose the state's increasingly lousy infrastructure.

Computers are lean forward devices, but lousy entertainment machines.

With active faculty participation, decisions may well be lousy.

It should not surprise anyone that employers decided it was a lousy time to hire.

There was a time when even the best computer graphics available were lousy.

She expressed disappointment over the lousy grade and astonishment over the apparent ill will in the comments.

The government's public relations have also been lousy.

Between the lousy service, lost luggage and inevitable delays, nothing about it can be called fun.

One can review the black-run cities and find poorly managed finances and lousy schools.

The first year is anyway a lousy guide to presidential fortunes.

Drug dealers, by and large, make lousy house guests.

The author's attempt to rebut the idea that greenery costs money is similarly hampered by lousy statistics.

Unfortunately, the games were lousy and the puzzles incomprehensible.

Yet such things do not stop ethanol from being a lousy fuel.

The first coupe suffered from poor workmanship and lousy handling.

Consumers will tolerate a lousy product for far longer than they will tolerate a lousy lifestyle.

Moldable frame couldn't make us forgive the lousy gaskets, which leaked worse than old-school neoprene.

Another lousy gelato shop tricking us into thinking it's the real deal.

European universities do not lack money, as unions claim, but need to hire better staff-and be able to sack lousy teachers.

Men who made an ill-advised choice in the ancient version of a singles bar simply had one lousy night.

That's the lousy thing about no smoking rules on airplanes.

Governments have historically been lousy stewards of industry.

IT should come as no surprise that writers make lousy company.

Many countries also do a lousy job in enforcing contracts and property rights, notes the report.

It is a lousy response in the case of monopolies and quasi-monopolies, such as all four corporations under discussion.

He was still steamed about what an unforgivably lousy negotiator his president had been on the debt ceiling agreement.

It often is not the lowest price available, too, so it's a great deal for them and a lousy one for you.

Nor is it buying a lousy business that has been dressed.

In lousy weather or health, he was there to volunteer at the salsa concerts put.

But its earnings release suggests that business really is lousy.

TVs are great to watch a movie on but lousy at doing email or web surfing.

You're going to be stuck with a lousy economy anyway.

Her boyfriend proves to be a lousy safe-cracker and the heist fails.

There are no doubt too many colleges that do a lousy job of the first or the second kind of teaching.

Pen enough clever puns on lousy cable companies and subpar salad bars and you'll garner a cult following.

Her sources for new ideas include everything from life situations to other people's music to lousy sci-fi movies.

There are instances both ways, good and bad, of lousy teaching.

Consumers complain of frequently dropped calls, lousy customer service and exorbitant penalties for exiting a contract.

He's unfaithful to his wife, lousy to his clients, and miserable with his children.

If lousy reception could be solved solely by a slip of adhesive and aluminum, the world would be a much simpler place.

They have dismal career prospects, lousy pay and no job security.

Bad teachers mean a lousy talent-pool for employers.

You've got to really try hard to get lousy mileage in this car.

I'd rather sip soup for a week and feel lousy for a week or two, than have this drag on for over a month.

Most price frames made for lousy matches between shoppers and retailers, a bad result all around.

The backlit screen tires your eyes and is lousy in sunlight.

My sense is that the public library job market isn't is pretty lousy right now.

Wright says he's working on an automotive jack that will work on dirt, gravel and any other lousy surface.

Teachers who continually put down their students are lousy teachers.

The financial crisis revealed that top bankers were fabulously remunerated for doing what turned out to be a lousy job.

And be prepared to take some ribbing if you're a lousy driver.

Lousy story, tell you friend not to be shy about letting others in the field know about the school.

Auden once warned that poets make lousy politicians, because they're way too entranced by apocalyptic spectacle.

That's a lousy position to be in after spending years and years in pursuit of a degree and a job.

The markets and politics will still be here and in a lousy shape when you return.

Real wheel drive made it predictably lousy in the snow, but a hell of a lot of fun.

One lousy eval won't matter, particularly because your colleagues will know exactly who wrote it.

Well if they don't, either they have a lousy product or it's being copied so well they don't know.

Makes sense, because they get lousy fuel economy and emit a lot of carbon dioxide.

All these methods are lousy because they still convey bad news.

They built their brands gradually, overcoming the occasional lousy album.

The construction of such a novel machine was lousy with difficulties, some internal and many external.

Not many lousy teachers want to put up with another dreary semester of whining.

It was a lousy country, but there were and there are many much more lousy countries in the world.

ICar interiors are lousy places for hi-fi audio systems.

So kudos for that, even though the salaries are lousy.

The evidence would suggest that there are some great alternative certification programmes and some lousy ones.

It worked because the jail had lousy verification procedures.

However, my issue with them is the lousy proofing of the quiz and test bank items.

Lousy roads and unforgiving landscapes make traditional convoys and cargo runs difficult, at best.

His problem is that students blame him in evals for their own lousy performance and that they are whining about missing deadlines.

They, unlike the grad students, know how dreadful the market is and how many truly lousy jobs there are in this field.

However, it's a lousy description of the situation for.

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World English Dictionary

lousy (ˈlaʊzɪ)

—*adj* , lousier, lousiest
1.	slang very mean or unpleasant: a lousy thing to do
2.	slang inferior or bad: this is a lousy film
3.	infested with lice
4.	slang (foll by with)
	a. provided with an excessive amount (of): he's lousy with money
	b. full of or teeming with

'lousily

—*adv*

'lousiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

lousy

late 14c., lousi, "infested with lice," from louse + -y (2). Figurative use as a generic term of abuse dates from late 14c.; sense of "swarming with" (money, etc.) is Amer.Eng. slang from 1843.

Slang Dictionary

lousy definition

[ˈlɑʊzi]

mod.
rotten; poor; bad. : This mushy stuff is lousy. Do I have to eat it?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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