| 单词 | lousy |
| 释义 | lousy (once / 5667 pages) adj Lousy things are terrible. The lousy things in life are the ones you complain about: your lousy job, the lousy weather, and the lousy pizza you had for lunch. The slang word lousy is the perfect way to describe something particularly awful or rotten. When you're sick, you feel lousy, and when someone is mean or rude, they treat you in a lousy way. The original, literal meaning of lousy is "infested with lice," those creepy crawly parasites that hang out on people's scalps. It was once common to say a place was "lousy with" something (like tourists or poodles) to mean "swarming with" them. WORD FAMILYlousy: lousier, lousiest, lousiness+/delouse: deloused, delouses, delousing/louse: delouse, lice, louses, lousy USAGE EXAMPLESThe odds on getting anybody nearly as good, or with a comparable ceiling, are lousy. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) This structure would kill the incentive for financial advisers to pitch lousy products with embedded fees to their clients. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Not a bad trade for a few lousy midweek games between teams you don’t want to see wearing garish color rush uniforms. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) 1adj very bad a lousy play Syn crappy, icky, rotten, stinking, stinky bad having undesirable or negative qualities 2adj vile; despicable Syn dirty, filthy awful, nasty offensive or even (of persons) malicious 3adj infested with lice burned their lousy clothes Syn dirty, soiled, unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime |
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