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lousy

If something is lousy, it is bad or have a poor quality. No offense, but his cooking is lousy. If a place is lousy, it is infested with lice.

lousy

(= stinking) very bad a lousy play it's a stinking world infested with lice burned their lousy clothes (= dirty, filthy) vile; despicable a dirty (or lousy) trick a filthy traitor

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Simple sentences

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
Tom did a lousy job.
What a lousy camera!
I've had a lousy day.
I'm a lousy singer.
Tom is a lousy kisser.
Doctors make such lousy patients.
Tom is in a lousy mood.
I'm a lousy cook.

Movie subtitles

Brilliant with a scalpel, lousy with directions.
You're so used to dealing with lousy, rotten people. you're rotten yourself!
Those lousy bums! Some profession you chose.
That poor thing with a flat chest that didn't have nerve enough. to talk up to you, washing your greasy overalls, cooking. and slaving in some lousy mining shack?
That's why they were so lousy in the last war.
I bet he's a lousy lover.
The lousy line's dead, sir.
The rascally, beggarly, lousy knave, Pistol, which you and yourself and all the world know to be no better than a fellow, look you, of no merits - he is come to me and bring me bread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my leek.
God bless you, Pistol, you scurvy, lousy knave.
I beseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, to eat, look you, this leek.
Boy, there is a lousy game.
You're a great guy to know and a real lousy soldier.
Lousy muck!
A lousy band can make the blues sound like a tango.
Jet's a pretty lousy negotiator.
He is to hand us over to those lousy citizens!
Those lousy bums!
It's lousy.
You look lousy.
Lousy visual memory.
When I catch the lousy student, who took my shoe!
Did you look at that lousy referee's soul? He gave them a foul that we should have gotten.
I'd have been lousy company last night, honey.
You're a lousy prophet.
He feels lousy about what happened.
Despite the haircut the dentist and the hairdresser, you're just another lousy tug's doll!
Nick's always told us none of us can get involved with the peanut racket, and there's no way I'm going to betray Nick for a kiss on the cheek for a lousy seven seconds.
You're a lousy actor.
He thinks I'm his woman because of one lousy kimono.
The field master was lousy.
God bless you, Pistol, you scurvy, lousy knave, God bless you!
Lousy.
In spite of those lousy Parties! Yeah!
You lousy wretch!
The lousy pork meat.
What a lousy radio you have!
A burnt-out bearing, bad tyres and a lousy reputation.

News and current affairs

The result is bad teaching, lousy research, and absentee professors.
Those with great technology and lousy marketing will find others with lousy technology and great marketing.
But recent harvests had been lousy and farmers had little or nothing to feed their animals and themselves.
Because of lousy salaries in the state administration, many young and gifted people avoid government service, preferring to look for better-paid jobs in the private sector, or to emigrate.
And, again, Republicans responded tendentiously, by focusing on the unemployment rate rather than on the job numbers - as if it were a good thing that the lousy labor market since 2001 has artificially depressed the number of people looking for work.
Sometimes the culprit is lousy internal controls in financial firms that over-reward subordinates for taking risk.
For example, Americans must buy cars because public transport is so lousy.
Why were the risk controls at highly-leveraged money-center universal banks so lousy?
The online car service Uber adapted existing technologies to transform a long-sheltered industry that too often provided lousy and expensive service.
If globalization has acquired a lousy reputation in the US, the external deficit deserves much of the blame.
Even in that case, however, naming those who misbehave to important positions of high trust and acclaiming them as bipartisan statesmen gives the next generation really lousy incentives.
Maybe the collapse stems from lousy internal controls in financial firms that, swaddled by implicit government guarantees, lavish their employees with enormous rewards for risky behavior.

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