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lousy

Adjektivhäufig in Dialogen

  • //ˈlaʊ.zi//

Unwanted and often unpleasant. Insufficient and less than expected of a good thing.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Unwanted and often unpleasant. Insufficient and less than expected of a good thing.

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

  2. 2

    Unwanted and often unpleasant. Remarkably bad; of poor quality.

    No offense, but his cooking is lousy.

    Must have been a lousy school.

  3. 3

    Unwanted and often unpleasant. Dirty or untidy.

    I cleaned the lousy garage.

  4. 4

    Unwanted and often unpleasant. Underhanded; mean; contemptible.

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

  5. 5

    Unwell; under the weather.

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

  6. 6

    Infested with lice.

  7. 7

    Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).

    The place was lousy with students.

    The benignant influence crept like gas through the Row. […] And triangulation might possibly have located it in the Palace Flophouse and Grill. Certainly the Palace was lousy with it. Mack and the boys were charged. Jones was seen to leap from his chair only to do a quick tap dance and sit down again.

    [I talked to] Annabeth about the Greek gods who hung out in New York and made her life difficult. Apparently North America was lousy with ancient gods. We had a full-blown infestation.

Herkunft

From Middle English lousy, lowsy, lousi, equivalent to louse + -y.

Formen

Komparativ
lousier
Superlativ
lousiest
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