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lous·y

(lou′zē)

adj. lous·i·er, lous·i·est

1. Inferior or worthless: a lousy play.

2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick.

3. Sick or unwell: I feel really lousy.

4. Infested with lice.

5. Slang Abundantly supplied: lousy with money.

lous′i·ly adv.

lous′i·ness n.

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lousy

(ˈlaʊzɪ)

adj, lousier or 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

a. provided with an excessive amount (of): he's lousy with money.

b. full of or teeming with

ˈlousily adv

ˈlousiness n

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lous•y

(ˈlaʊ zi)

adj. lous•i•er, lous•i•est.

1. infested with lice.

2. Informal.

a. mean; contemptible: That was a lousy thing to do.

b. wretchedly bad; miserable: a lousy job of repainting.

Idioms:

lousy with, Slang. well supplied with: lousy with money.

[1350–1400]

lous′i•ly, adv.

lous′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	lousy - very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
	2.	lousy - infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes" dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
	3.	lousy - vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" filthy, dirty nasty, awful - offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

lousy

adjective

1. (Slang) inferior, bad, poor, terrible, awful, no good, miserable, rotten (informal), duff, second-rate, shoddy, low-rent (informal, chiefly U.S.), for the birds (informal), shitty (taboo slang), two-bit (U.S. & Canad. slang), slovenly, poxy (slang), dime-a-dozen (informal), piss-poor (slang), chickenshit (U.S. slang), bush-league (Austral. & N.Z. informal), not much cop (Brit. slang), tinhorn (U.S. slang), of a sort or of sorts, strictly for the birds (informal) The menu is limited and the food is lousy.

2. unwell, poorly (informal), ill, sick, crook (Austral. & N.Z. informal), seedy (informal), queasy, out of sorts (informal), off-colour, under the weather (informal) I wasn't actually sick but I was feeling lousy.

3. (Slang) mean, low, base, dirty, vicious, rotten (informal), vile, despicable, hateful, contemptible, shitty (taboo slang) This is just lousy, cheap, fraudulent behaviour from the government.

4. (Slang) (with with) well-supplied with, rolling in (slang), not short of, amply supplied with a hotel lousy with fleas

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lousy

adjective

1. So objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation:

abhorrent, abominable, antipathetic, contemptible, despicable, despisable, detestable, disgusting, filthy, foul, infamous, loathsome, low, mean, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, repugnant, rotten, shabby, vile, wretched.

2. Of decidedly inferior quality:

base, cheap, miserable, paltry, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy, trashy.

Informal: cheesy.

Slang: crummy, schlocky.

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pésimo

lousy

[ˈlaʊzɪ] ADJ (lousier (compar) (lousiest (superl)))

1. (= louse-ridden) → piojoso

2. (= very bad) [climate, food] → asqueroso; [secretary, driver] → malísimo, pésimo
it was a lousy meal → fue una comida asquerosa
I'm a lousy player → juego fatal
all for a few lousy quid → todo por unas cochinas libras
we had a lousy time → lo pasamos fatal
what a lousy trick! → ¡qué cerdada!
I feel lousy → me siento fatal

3. to be lousy with money (= rich) → estar forrado, estar podrido de dinero

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louse¹

(laus) – plural lice (lais) – noun

a type of wingless, blood-sucking insect, sometimes found on the bodies of animals and people. piojo

lousy (ˈlauzi) adjective

1. having lice. piojoso

2. really terrible. I'm a lousy cook.horrible

ˈlousiness noun

ruindad

lousy

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