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Synonyms for lousy
ˈlaʊ zilousy

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  1. icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinkyadjective

    very bad

    "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"

    Synonyms:
    noisome, icky, malodorous, filthy, smelly, crappy, fetid, ill-smelling, malodourous, ill-scented, foetid, foul, rotten, unpleasant-smelling, stinky, decayed, dirty, rotted, gooey, stinking, shitty, foul-smelling, funky

    Antonyms:
    good, nice, clean

  2. lousyadjective

    infested with lice

    "burned their lousy clothes"

    Synonyms:
    stinking, shitty, icky, rotten, stinky, filthy, crappy, dirty

    Antonyms:
    clean, good, nice

  3. dirty, filthy, lousyadjective

    vile; despicable

    "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"

    Synonyms:
    soiled, cruddy, smutty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, stinky, dingy, crappy, filthy, cheating(a), nasty, stinking, unclean, rotten, shitty, pestiferous, marked-up, ill-gotten, foul, contaminating, sordid, icky, dirty, muddy, muddied

    Antonyms:
    good, clean, nice

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  1. List of paraphrases for "lousy":

    miserable, rotten, bad, wretched, measly, ugly, pathetic

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#17102miserable
#18127pathetic
#18321muddy
#19359filthy
#20709crappy
#24941lousy
#30005smelly
#30945wretched
#31592shitty
#34771stinky
#35691soiled
#37000unclean
#45047stinking
#47520sordid
#49780gooey
#52885decayed
#55025icky
#58167contaminating
#58318dingy
#68555measly
#72813rotted
#104208unsportsmanlike
#116654fetid
#135003muddied
#140999smutty
#160064cruddy
#190598unsporting
#195362malodorous
#227568noisome

How to use lousy in a sentence?

  1. Kwon Jong Gun:

    I am afraid that, if Pompeo engages in the talks again, the table will be lousy once again and the talks will become entangled, therefore, even in the case of possible resumption of the dialogue with the United States, I wish our dialogue counterpart would be not Pompeo but other person who is more careful and mature in communicating with us.

  2. Ken Welch:

    ( Romney) did everything he could -- probably more than any man in America -- to get Hillary Clinton elected, he had national news conferences, and spoke on Fox News, to announce that Donald Trump was a fraud, he was a lousy business man. He's a' Never Trumper,'.

  3. Marla Margolis:

    This was simply beyond the pale, i was beyond livid. It's one thing to have a lousy customer service experience and have it end with the disconnection of the call. It's quite another for a call center rep to have taken the following steps to send me this message.

  4. Gail Saltz:

    Children lack good judgment. They might do things that are lousy ideas, but seem good in the moment. Once the cat is out of the bag -- and the video is online -- there is not a whole lot you can do about it.

  5. Donald Trump:

    He has done such a lousy job as president, you're lucky I didn't run last time when Romney ran because you would have been a one-term president.


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