lousy (redirected from lousier)

lous·y  (louz)

adj. lous·i·er, lous·i·est

1. Infested with lice.

2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick.

3. Very painful or unpleasant: a lousy headache.

4. Inferior or worthless: a lousy play.

5. Slang Abundantly supplied: lousy with money.

---

lousi·ly adv.

lousi·ness n.

---

lousy

Adjective

[lousier, lousiest]

1. Slang very mean or unpleasant

2. Slang inferior or bad

3. Slang ill or unwell

4. infested with lice

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	lousy - very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
	2.	lousy - infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes" dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
	3.	lousy - vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" filthy, dirty nasty, awful - offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

---

lousy

adjective 1. (Slang) inferior, bad, poor, terrible, awful, no good, miserable, rotten (informal) duff, second-rate, shoddy, low-rent (informal), chiefly U.S. for the birds (informal) two-bit U.S., Canad. (slang) slovenly, poxy (slang) dime-a-dozen (informal) bush-league Austral., N.Z. (informal) not much cop Brit. (slang) tinhorn U.S. (slang) of a sort or of sorts, strictly for the birds (informal) bodger or bodgie Austral. (slang)

adjective 2. (Slang) mean, low, base, dirty, vicious, rotten (informal) vile, despicable, hateful, contemptible

3. (Slang) (with with) well-supplied with, rolling in (slang) not short of, amply supplied with

Translations

lousy [ˈlauzɪ] adj (fig) → vil, asqueroso

lousy [ˈlauzɪ] (inf) adj (= bad quality) → infect(e) → moche;

I feel lousy → je suis mal fichu(e)

lousy [ˈlauzɪ] (inf) adj (= bad-quality) → lausig, mies (= despicable); fies, gemein (= ill);

to feel lousy → sich miserabel or elend fühlen

lousy [ˈlauzɪ] adj (fig) → orrendo/a, schifoso/a