lousy

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Lousy things are terrible. The lousy things in life are the ones you complain about: your lousy job, the lousy weather, and the lousy pizza you had for lunch.
The slang word lousy is the perfect way to describe something particularly awful or rotten. When you're sick, you feel lousy, and when someone is mean or rude, they treat you in a lousy way. The original, literal meaning of lousy is "infested with lice," those creepy crawly parasites that hang out on people's scalps. It was once common to say a place was "lousy with" something (like tourists or poodles) to mean "swarming with" them.
Definitions of
lousy
1
adj very bad
“a lousy play”
Synonyms:
crappy, icky, rotten, stinking, stinky
bad
having undesirable or negative qualities
adj vile; despicable
Synonyms:
dirty, filthy
awful, nasty
offensive or even (of persons) malicious
adj infested with lice
“burned their lousy clothes”
Synonyms:
dirty, soiled, unclean
soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime

The trio was cut from the entire evening’s broadcast because each has such lousy polling numbers.
TimeNov 9, 2015
But this is a lousy way for colleges to decide which students to accept.
Washington PostOct 30, 2015
Alienated inner city children learn to accept their lousy learning conditions and not act out their anger.
SalonNov 8, 2015
Even the giant can’t believe his lousy luck: “Can this be his life, his kitchen, his haggard and grudging wife?”