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It is an informal adjective which can be used to describe something or someone as unpleasant, of low quality, or inferior. For example, "This lunch is lousy - it doesn't even have any flavor!".
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Hockey did do a lousy job of explaining budget 2014 and Morrison is doing a good job of explaining his pre-announced policies this year.
If I dislike someone, it is all but impossible to conceal the fact, which is why I made a lousy waitress.
Isn't it time to give up on the whole lousy edifice?
3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.
They were interesting features, having a bigger screen, but the end result was a lousy product, because they were big and clunky," Ive noted when asked why it took Apple so long to follow the trend first set by Android smartphones with screens larger than 4in around the 4.7in to 5in mark.
It was a lousy way to wrap up a two year term on the security council, given the intense competition to win the seat.
But the Obama White House is already lousy with lobbyists, Carney writes: In crafting and signing those executive orders, I wonder if Obama relied on the help of White House deputy counsel Cassandra Butts(1), White House special assistant Martha Coven (2), or the chief of staff or the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Michael Strautmanis (3), all of whom were registered lobbyists.
But to America's unions, that misstates the state of play – they say the deal is a lousy one when the administration should be negotiating a good one.
If I had gone for lousy, that might have captured it better".
There are a host of takeaway pizza joints around Venice, but at most the food is average, if not lousy.
"For $70 a month I get a lousy 1 gigabyte and it still takes me a long time to download even the most basic pdf document" says Mary Killeen, local branch president of the isolated children's parents' association.
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