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Lousy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Lousy has 3 senses
- lousy(s = adj.all) crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky - very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" Derived form noun lousiness2
- lousy(s = adj.all) Array - infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes" Derived forms noun louse1, noun louse4, noun louse3, noun lousiness1
- lousy(s = adj.all) dirty, filthy - vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" Derived form noun lousiness2
CIDE DICTIONARY
Lousy, a.
- Infested with lice. [1913 Webster]
- Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [1913 Webster]"Such lousy learning as this is."
- Very bad; as, to feel lousy; to do a lousy job. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Lousy, adj. (lousier, lousiest)
1 infested with lice.
2 colloq. very bad; disgusting (also as a term of general disparagement).
3 colloq. (often foll. by with) well supplied, teeming (with).
1 infested with lice.
2 colloq. very bad; disgusting (also as a term of general disparagement).
3 colloq. (often foll. by with) well supplied, teeming (with).
Derivative
lousily adv. lousiness n.
THESAURUS
Lousy
abominable, alive with, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beset, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, infamous, inferior, infested, lamentable, loathsome, low, low-quality, mean, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, pedicular, pediculous, pitiable, pitiful, plagued, poor, rank, ratty, ravaged, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, second-rate, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid, teeming, terrible, too bad, unclean, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched
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