lousyadjective
uk/ˈlaʊ.zi/us/ˈlaʊ.zi/informallousy adjective (BAD)
very bad:
lousy food/service
a lousy book
I had a lousy weekend.
I feel lousy - I'm going home.
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Informal words for bad
- badass
- bum
- crap
- crappy
- crash and burn idiom
- crook
- crud
- crummy
- duff
- not be up to much idiom
- pappy
- piss-poor
- pisser
- pit
- ropy
- such as it is idiom
- tawdry
- trashy
- wack
- yucky
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lousy adjective (INSULTING)
[ before noun ] used to say that you feel insulted by something:
All he offered me was a lousy 20 bucks (= a small amount of money)!
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- meagre
- measly
- mingy
- nearly
- rare
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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lousy adjective (FULL)
lousy with sth
mainly US used to say that something is full of something, or has too much of it:
The internet is lousy with this kind of stuff.
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Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- make a pig of yourself idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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