How to Use lousy in a Sentence

lousy

adjective
Definition of lousynext
Synonyms for lousynext
  • And yet, study after study suggests that parents are, in fact, lousy consumers of childcare.
    — Kendra Hurley, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Their citizens also require healthy climates — not lousy air.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This defense is just a week removed from holding Tom Brady without a touchdown pass and putting him in a lousy mood for most of last Sunday night.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Gi-hun creates moments of genuine tenderness, acting as a surrogate moral backbone within the arena, despite starting off as a lousy father and son.
    — Morgan Ome, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Mayfield and the Browns insist his lousy performance in the 14-7 victory in Minnesota was just that – a bad game.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Betts is being asked to change positions because, despite having all winter to figure this out, the Dodgers just now decided that Lux is a lousy shortstop.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • That lousy print triggered the beginning of a sell-off that sunk the S&P 500 in September to its worst performance in over a year.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Overall, the show has turned away from lost love and lousy love — mainstays of country music — to a lighter tone, partly because the music now primarily comes from the Disney film catalog.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • The Zone was meant to step up, not down, to stir thought, to break through tradition and conformity, to punch sacred cows and puncture sanctimony, to praise great performances and criticize lousy ones.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Unfortunately, these early clocks were lousy timekeepers, their ability to keep time deteriorating along with the battery.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Wishing you some good days to make up for the lousy ones.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Many fine books are full of that, and too many lousy books try to match it.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The second was pit road is a lousy place to try to talk to a driver.
    — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2022
  • The past 15 years has been a lousy time to sell life insurance.
    — Leslie Scism, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • On Monday night, a lousy start was once again the culprit.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And one sale could make the difference between a good month and a lousy one.
    — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There were early signs things might be lousy at Levi’s.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Just a very good sequence there for New England, and a lousy one for the Lions.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The Dodgers need to rescue a lousy starting rotation and trade for an ace, now!
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Your husband is in a lousy spot, caught between spouse and sibling.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Sure, the ending is as lousy as any as Spielberg has ever done.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Mean stage managers, lousy agents that didn’t protect me.
    — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Dodgers need to rescue lousy rotation and trade for an ace, now!
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • Bad reviews, weak audience polling and lousy legs will see to that.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The Jekyll and Hyde Cavs continue to be perplexingly lousy on the road.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Roberts had a lousy seventh inning in the deciding Game 4 and still needs more dugout help.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Preller has assembled a brilliant cast with a lousy script.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • The remaining question is how to do it without feeling lousy in the process.
    — Elijah Rawls, Men's Health, 14 June 2022
  • And, as more than a few Help Desk readers have pointed out to us, many of those calls still sound pretty lousy.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The real losers would be lousy jobs, which would struggle to retain workers with a greater cushion to quit and go looking elsewhere.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024

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