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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
/ ˱ô²¹Ê³úɪ /
adjective
- slang.very mean or unpleasant
a lousy thing to do
- slang.inferior 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
Derived Forms
- ˱ôŽÇ³Ü²õŸ±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
- ˱ôŽÇ³Ü²õŸ±±ô²â, adverb
Other yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ôŽÇ³Ü²õîi·±ô²â adverb
- ±ôŽÇ³Ü²õîi·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- lousy with, Slang. 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
In fact, more and more people are tuning out the news completely to avoid feeling lousy from the chaotic directives from the Oval Office and multitudes of global crises.
Your phone battery could die or cell service may be unavailable when youâre on the road â a lousy time to realize you donât know the phone number of the place youâre headed.
Francis, now retired in the Sierra foothills, is quite mindful of the Carter narrative â lousy president, sainted ex-president â and reacted to its mention in a tone that mixed weariness with resignation.
This is my Christmas wish for a Lakers franchise that has lost the town to the Dodgers, lost the season because of a lousy roster, and just lost by 41 points to Pat Riley.
It wasn't pretty, but given the lousy conditions and the bearpit nature of the contest, it was compelling.
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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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