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[ adjective ] (informal) very bad

Examples

"a lousy play" "it's a stinking world"

Used in print

(Francis Pollini, Night....)

If only the fucken weather was n't so lousy !

Lousy Reactionary bastards been tryin to fuck_up the Program for months .

Related terms

colloquialism bad

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[ adjective ] infested with lice

Examples

"burned their lousy clothes"

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

No epidemic was initiated nor was one expected because the population in City A was not lousy .

On_the_other_hand , a similar attack might have been made on City_B whose population was known to be lousy .

Related terms

dirty

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[ adjective ] vile; despicable

Synonyms

dirty filthy

Examples

"a dirty (or lousy) trick" "a filthy traitor"

Related terms

nasty

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