lousy

About 1.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Unwanted and often unpleasant.

   I worked here all summer and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

2. adjective Insufficient and less than expected of a good thing.

   I worked here all summer and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

3. adjective Remarkably bad; of poor quality.

   No offense, but his cooking is lousy.

4. adjective Dirty or untidy.

   I cleaned the lousy garage.

5. adjective Underhanded; mean; contemptible.

   I've had enough of lousy backstabbing at this place.

6. adjective Unwell; under the weather.

   I caught a cold and I've been feeling lousy all week.

7. adjective Infested with lice.
8. adjective Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).

   The place was lousy with students.

Similar words

icky awful nasty bad crappy shitty dirty rotten unclean soiled

Often followed by

job with and at day little weather in way

Word family

lousier lousiest lousily lousiness lousinesses