Sentence examples for be a pretty lousy from inspiring English sources

A 4-1 win-loss rationon the balance sheet for the winter would still be a pretty lousy return but going out on a high should never be underestimated.

"The good news is there was a bit of an uptick in consumer sentiment, but frankly I think it's going to be a pretty lousy fourth quarter," Wyss said.

In fact, I can be a pretty lousy listener.

"I'm a pretty lousy consumer," she said.

("I'd taught Sunday school," he says, "and I was a pretty lousy teacher, to be honest").

That's a pretty lousy beginning, and I wouldn't want to read the fiction that comes out of it.

I am aware that through our relationship, I have been a pretty lousy listener, preferring to interject with advice and suggestions of a better approach to recovery.

I was in Nigeria this summer and there's a pretty lousy government that has managed, in spite of itself, to contain its own Delta insurgency, despite rampant corruption and incompetence.

She recalled the judge's warning, on the day that Metts took the plea: "It's a good deal if you make it, or else it's a pretty lousy deal if you don't".

The trend toward staying private is a pretty lousy development for employees looking to move on with their lives, though.

"This has been a pretty lousy period to go through," Weill said, but hastened to add, "I think we've made the right moves in how we've reorganized that business, so we can make the settlement with the FTC and the lawyers and all the 50 states".