If you have great publications but lousy teaching, you'll still get tenure.
In fact, if you really want to understand what it means to be alive, humans are a lousy choice.
If you've got lousy credit, be careful where you buy your car.
It's no secret that this is a lousy time to try to sell your business.
Yet our recipe for achieving that is an anti-intellectual witches' brew of lousy values.
Yields on short-term investments such as money-market funds and bank deposits are lousy.
The effect would have been as though a lousy cosmic golfer tore up a giant chunk of turf and sent it hurtling into orbit.
The moral of this story: half-truths doth lousy coffin-nails make.
Type-A personalities will revel in the organizational potential of this expandable roller, lousy with pockets and compartments.
People want to stop these lousy dictators from looting their countries.
British Dictionary definitions for lousy
lousy
/ˈlaʊzɪ/
adjective lousier, lousiest
1.
(slang) very mean or unpleasant: a lousy thing to do
2.
(slang) inferior or bad: this is a lousy film
3.
infested with lice
4.
(foll by with) (slang)
provided with an excessive amount (of): he's lousy with money
full of or teeming with
Derived Forms
lousily, adverb lousiness, noun
Word Origin and History for lousy
adj.
mid-14c., lousi, "infested with lice," from louse + -y (2). Figurative use as a generic adjective of abuse dates from late 14c.; sense of "swarming with" (money, etc.) is American English slang from 1843. Related: Lousiness.
Slang definitions & phrases for lousy
lousy
adjective
Bad; nasty; crummy: Crab was all she ever did. What a lousy sport/ Yuh lousy boob(1690+)