How to Use lousy in a Sentence

lousy

adjective
Definition of lousynext
Synonyms for lousynext
  • I like the work, but the pay is lousy.
  • That's a lousy way to treat a friend.
  • They did a lousy job.
  • It's a lousy, rainy day.
  • He drank too much and felt lousy the next morning.
  • She got lousy grades in high school.
  • He was a lousy husband.
  • Wishing you some good days to make up for the lousy ones.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2023
  • They're both seen as a lousy place to sink your spare cash.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Many fine books are full of that, and too many lousy books try to match it.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The second was pit road is a lousy place to try to talk to a driver.
    — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2022
  • Howard had lousy support on the first two goals but should have had the third one.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2020
  • At least the rain provides one last chance to wash away the residue of the lost and lousy 2020 season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The past 15 years has been a lousy time to sell life insurance.
    — Leslie Scism, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • David Vélez set out to kill off the fat fees and lousy service of Brazil’s big banks.
    — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • On Monday night, a lousy start was once again the culprit.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In a few more months, the Hamptons will be lousy with the new Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 May 2021
  • The iron shot went into a lousy lie in the deep rough and started the bogey string.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The road from Laredo to Austin is long and lousy with nothing much.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The weather in Cleveland is lousy in the second half of the season.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2020
  • And the pay is lousy -- not enough to live on even if you are employed four or five days a week.
    — cleveland, 14 Oct. 2020
  • And one sale could make the difference between a good month and a lousy one.
    — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Can a company do founder mode if the founder is lousy—or lazy?
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
  • There were early signs things might be lousy at Levi’s.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Just a very good sequence there for New England, and a lousy one for the Lions.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Shane’s mother is right: The place is lousy with pineapples.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2021
  • It's been said that the one thing all great authors have in common is lousy first drafts.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2020
  • Instead, many of us feel stuck in a lousy present with little sense of the future.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Sounds like a lousy way to run an awards show, but nobody’s asking me.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Right now, the individual market is great for the healthy and lousy for the sick.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

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