Word Finder - lousy

definition

Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.

example

No offense, but his cooking is lousy.

synonyms

• miserable

definition

Infested with lice.

definition

(usually with with) Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).

example

The place was lousy with students.

synonyms

• inundated
• jam-packed
• teeming

Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.

I never gave up hope but I did feel so damn lousy.

I promised to make you happy, Carmen, and I'm doing a lousy job of it.

If you consistently score lousy, then the audience will start walking out on you and you'll fail the song.

Advice that's great for one situation might be lousy for another.

As long as each thought the other stole their lousy couple of a million the fur kept flying.

Aesthetic reasons aside, using a lousy shot gives the impression that you either don't care much about your appearance, or you don't take the people reading your ad very seriously.

It may not be a big deal if you do a lousy job painting an interior wall, but if you're replacing stairs you need to be extra careful.

With a wag of their tail, they can make even a lousy day seem brighter.

By the end of my four hour trick the weather was really lousy.

After each phrase/verse, the amount of green in your meter indicates if you get a great, good, fair, poor, or lousy rating.

The pay is generally lousy, the hours brutal, and the job security non-existent.

Labels blame the precipitous falloff on piracy and online file-sharing, while some consumers point to lousy music offerings.

Like me, Ellison is a pretty lousy science fiction writer.

The band was really tight by now and the songs weren't so lousy.

No one wants to know about your lousy job or the fact that your boyfriend just dumped you.

If so they did a rather lousy job putting 'em back up after the war.

I was feeling lousy to the point where I didn't want to get up in the mornings.

Most of the time, these turn out to be lousy products at a premium price.

A bumbling franchisee can damage goodwill of the business brand by providing lousy service or cutting corners to produce substandard products.

The timing is lousy for me to be bugging you with questions.

But not Big kind Bush, he likes war and is as we all know from experience is absolutely lousy at waging it.

In other words, this beer would look lousy in a bikini.

The Internet is a great way to find and research an antique desk, but it is a lousy way to buy an antique desk.

It may be hard to have fun when you feel so lousy about your life, but doing something that you enjoy will help you release tension.

You see, thanks to some lousy advice from six shady sages with ulterior motives, the Emperor had his kingdom's heroes crucified to a great tree.

Do a couple Google searches, but be prepared for "free" sites where you have one or two lousy freebies with everything else costing an arm and a leg.

That's a lot of heat for a lousy two or three million.