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Lousy   /lˈaʊzi/   Listen
Lousy

adjective
1.
Very bad.  Synonyms: crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky.  "It's a stinking world"
2.
Infested with lice.
3.
Vile; despicable.  Synonyms: dirty, filthy.  "A filthy traitor"






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"Lousy" Quotes from Famous Books



... here, you lousy wine-sack of Scotland?" he cried; and at the word, my prayer which I had made to St. Andrew in my bonds came into my mind, namely, that I should not endure ...
— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang

... do we care? You gotta take the long view. What we're working out here is going to be used on half a million planets eventually." He tried to snap his fingers. "These two lousy planets don't count that much." He succeeded in snapping them this time. "Not ...
— Adaptation • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... the lousy pup. Calls himself Jack Harpe, huh? Shore, he come in the Starlight with Lanpher and gimme the eye without a quiver. Didn't know me, he didn't! And I ain't done nothin' to my ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

... Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... should we to nobles jouk, And it's against the law that; For why, a lord may be a gouk, Wi' ribbon, star, an' a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, Here's Heron yet for a' that! A lord may be a lousy loun, Wi' ribbon, star, ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... days gone by, Clo," said Sir Jeoffry, "but swore at them roundly when they ran in thy horse's way as thou went at gallop through the village, and called the men and women lousy pigs ...
— His Grace of Osmonde • Frances Hodgson Burnett



Words linked to "Lousy" :   stinky, unclean, soiled, crappy, nasty, lousiness, colloquialism, louse, awful, bad



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