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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a lousy case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, argument, or example that is considered poor or inadequate.
Example: "The lawyer presented a lousy case, failing to provide sufficient evidence to support his claims."
Alternatives: "a weak case" or "a poor case".
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It raises suspicions that the government is trying to hide a lousy case (which I believe was not the situation here), and it sends a message to jurors that they really may be in danger if they choose to convict.
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"They've given us a lousy foreign policy, the given us a lousy budget, they given us a lousy recession," he said.
The bad news: "What we're doing in America is, we're drugging people to make it through the night on, in many cases, a lousy bed".
Sometimes, however, the President is in a lousy mood, or, as was the case last week, some grave event has made Presidential hilarity potentially unseemly.
Arguably, though, Britain is a somewhat special case: it had a lousy 20s, thanks to the misguided return to gold, and a relatively good 30s, thanks to the early exit from gold.
Again, if that's the case, we did a lousy job communicating our opponents' individual and collective shortcomings.
If that was the case, though, we did a lousy job.
In some cases, the closeness of these communities offers bulwarks against a lousy economy.
What a lousy goal.
A lousy thing indeed.
"A lousy artist.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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