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lousy
[lou-zee]
adjective
infested with lice.
Informal.
mean or contemptible.
That was a lousy thing to do.
wretchedly bad; miserable.
a lousy job; I feel lousy.
lousy
/ ˈʊɪ /
adjective
slangvery mean or unpleasant
a lousy thing to do
slanginferior or bad
this is a lousy film
infested with lice
slang(foll by with)
provided with an excessive amount (of)
he's lousy with money
full of or teeming with
Other 51Թ Forms
- lousily adverb
- lousiness noun
- ˈdzܲԱ noun
- ˈdzܲ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
lousy with, well supplied with or filled with, often to excess.
Our city is lousy with bad drivers.
I wish I were lousy with money like my boss.
Example Sentences
But on the previous pitch, Pages, perhaps trying to make up for that lousy throw, was thrown out trying to steal third despite there being only one out.
So what if “Another Simple Favor” is ultimately a lousy film?
Then there was Reaves, who had a generally lousy series with five baskets in the four fourth quarters and eight of 10 missed pointers in the deciding game.
In a recent interview, she described him as “a lousy agent,” “a terrible husband” and “a mediocre father,” but said she did not harbor bitterness toward him.
Embedding herself with his family for several years, she reveals the ways poor families are stymied in their efforts to get by — lack of money, lousy landlords, addiction, parental abandonment and more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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