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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1. Gary Gensler:

   The streaming apps figured out a long time ago that I'm kind of a rom-com guy, you thought I was a thriller guy, but it's rom-com. If I lose an hour and a half and it was a lousy rom-com, alright.

2. Sheldon Whitehouse:

   Senate Democrats have a lousy record to live down.

3. Prems Sikka:

   This is a lousy number and we need to know more.

4. Ken Welch:

   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,'.

5. Lisa Damour:

   ‘Clearly, part of you wants to hang out with that classmate, but another part of you knows that every time you do, you walk away feeling lousy. Help me understand this,’.