The phrase "at lousy" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to determine its intended meaning.
Example: "The service was at lousy standards, which disappointed many customers."
Alternatives: "at a poor level" or "at subpar quality".
As a mode of transportation, sadly, the scooter proved the stiletto heel of the two-wheeled set: great to look at, lousy for carrying laundry to the dry cleaner.
New regulations give brokerages less leeway to fill orders at lousy prices, and hordes of high-frequency traders have arbitraged spreads to next to nothing.
And even with unemployment at lousy and unacceptable levels, there is tremendous spending power across the consumer landscape.
New York has always been different, the place you make sacrifices to live inside, an archipelago teeming with so much culture that people will slave away at lousy jobs and sleep in closets just to be near all that light and sound.
Meyer cannily invoked the Marxist-sounding "collective" as the only alternative to the Lockean personhood of the 2001 tax cuts, correctly concluding that people would rather be busting their asses at lousy jobs while watching hedge fund billionaires fly over than living in Stalinist Russia.
But there are plenty of cities across the country where economic life is at least as lousy.
Driving by her husband's favorite clam shack — only to dine at a lousy one — she is annoyed at his silence "because it deprived her of her chance to shrug coldly".
She's good at dialogue and lousy at narrative.
"To someone who is not yet persuaded of the satisfactions of making one's own way, there is something laughable about a person who doggedly keeps working at a lousy job for no tangible reason at all," he wrote.
In my diary: I went to the Radical Bloomsbury exhibition at Brighton Art Gallery: lousy paintings, lovely textiles.
Sort of like an all-you-can-eat buffet at a lousy restaurant.
