LOUSY - 8 definitions found
lousy adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky] 2: infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes" 3: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" [syn: dirty, filthy, lousy] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) lousy adjective (lousier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. infested with lice 2. a. totally repulsive ; contemptible b. miserably poor or inferior <got lousy grades> c. somewhat ill <felt lousy after dinner> d. amply supplied ; replete <lousy with money> 3. of silk fuzzy and specked because of splitting of the fiber • lousily adverb • lousiness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary lousy ˈlauzɪ 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). øølousily adv. lousiness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Lousy \Lous"y\, a. 1. Infested with lice. 2. Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) lousy ˈlauzɪ adj. 1 awful, terrible, mean, contemptible, low, base, hateful, detestable, despicable, vile, wretched, miserable, scurvy, dirty, vicious, Colloq rotten: Telling tales to the teacher was a lousy thing to do. 2 bad, poor, awful, terrible, inferior; low-quality, shoddy, shabby, inferior, miserable, second-rate, wretched: We had lousy seats for the theatre last week. The dealer seems to have sold you a really lousy car. 3 pedicular, pediculous, Brit lice-infested, lice-ridden, US louse-infested, louse-ridden: Even lice are lousy - they have their own parasites. 4 lousy with. alive with, overloaded with, swarming with, teeming with, Colloq crawling with, knee-deep in: In five minutes the place was lousy with cops. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 88 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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