lousy
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊ.zi/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English lousy, lowsy, lousi, equivalent to louse + -y.
- Unwanted and often unpleasant.
“I worked here all summer and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”
- Unwanted and often unpleasant.
“No offense, but his cooking is lousy.”
“Must have been a lousy school.”
- Unwanted and often unpleasant.
“I cleaned the lousy garage.”
- Unwanted and often unpleasant.
“I've had enough of lousy backstabbing at this place.”
- Unwell; under the weather.
“I caught a cold and I've been feeling lousy all week.”
- Infested with lice.
- Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).
“The place was lousy with students.”
“The benignant influence crept like gas through the Row. […] And triangulation might possibly have located it in the Palace Flophouse and Grill. Certainly the Palace was lousy with it. Mack and the boys were charged. Jones was seen to leap from his chair only to do a quick tap dance and sit down again.”