The phrase "a lousy choice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express disapproval or dissatisfaction with a decision or option that has been made.
Example: "Choosing to invest in that failing company was a lousy choice, and it cost us a lot of money."
Alternatives: "a poor decision" or "a bad option".
March is a lousy choice of month to start the countdown to withdrawal.
"It's a lousy choice," said Ronald L. Friedman, superintendent in Long Beach, in Nassau County.
He said he did so because the deal did not have meaningful deficit reduction, explaining: "Going over the cliff is a lousy choice and continuing to ignore the fiscal realities that we face is a lousy choice".
During his four-year tenure, which ended in 2004, the American composer was hounded by bad reviews, accusations of a lousy choice of repertoire and rumours that his relationship with the orchestra's players was not as it should be.
1952- Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show On Earth" was a lousy choice for Best Picture.
The news was showing images of widows crying but no one was telling the story of Richard Stickler, the head of Mining and Safety who was appointed over a recess because even the Republicans knew he was a lousy choice.
Without delving into the technical specifics, light water reactors are a pretty lousy choice if you're trying to scavenge up enough material to make a bomb.
It's a tantalising glimpse into the lousy choices available to ordinary people in a wartorn, painfully impoverished land, though the film wafts its attention only fleetingly at the Somalis' background.
Questions that should be, and are, deeply political have been taken as private problems -- how to best cope with a bad economic environment; how to pick a shrewd career path given lousy choices.
(Over the past several years, two memoirists, veterans of the Manhattan dating scene, have sought to dissect the proclivity for this sort of woman: Rick Marin in his book "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor," and Steve Friedman in "Lost on Treasure Island: A Memoir of Longing, Love and Lousy Choices in New York City").
Bennet, a big supporter of charter schools, made the point that school choice isn't much of a choice when schools aren't held accountable and families have lousy choices wherever they look.
