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How to pronounce lousy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dirty, filthy
Derivation lousiness


a dirty (or lousy) trick.
Type Words
Synonyms crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky
Derivation lousiness


a lousy play.
Type Words
Derivation louse, lousiness


burned their lousy clothes.

Examples of lousy

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Turns out, thanks to Pangaea, she now knows she was simply done with lousy beer.
From the sacbee.com
He was out of shape, and his lousy attitude rubbed off on some of his teammates.
From the freep.com
The problem, not to put too fine a point on it, is that it's a lousy experiment.
From the washingtonpost.com
Cowell's negativity may have made good theater but it also made a lousy TV show.
From the newsday.com
He has undeniable talent and charisma, but he picks an awful lot of lousy roles.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is better than getting a lousy agreement based on a political agenda success.
From the washingtontimes.com
As colorful, quotable, and provocative as he is, Sharpton is a lousy campaigner.
From the theatlantic.com
The sound quality from the speaker on both the iPhone and Glyde is pretty lousy.
From the bloomberg.com
You can spend a lot of money building a great website and ruin it by lousy copy.
From the badlanguage.net
More examples
  • Icky: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
  • Infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
  • Dirty: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
  • Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; Infested with lice; Filled or packed with something
  • (lousily) In a lousy manner, poorly or vilely
  • Incompetent or distasteful.