Sentence examples for lousy by from inspiring English sources

If their beloved club had been called "common" or "lousy" by rival fans, Hull City fans would be able to brush off the insult – they are too excited about Premier League football returning to their stadium.

Network Rail has been cancelling services to try to improve the remaining ones' punctuality, but says it will not get back to the level of reliability passengers enjoyed in 2000 (which was anyway pretty lousy by international standards) until 2010.

Even after Port St. Lucie, dubbed "Port St. Lousy" by its most sharp-tongued critics, became the New York Mets' spring-training site in the late 1980s, it still couldn't shake its small-town reputation.

Whatever the exact final numbers, it's sure to be lousy by historical standards.

The report was made slightly lousier by the government sector, which cut 12,000 workers from its payrolls last month.

They had gotten a lousy deal by being ruled by Milosevic".

Along the way, I've been treated to lousy herring by Gary Shteyngart, regaled with unprintable, really yucky stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, upbraided for a really dumb reason by Jeffrey Eugenides, and had my debut novel rejected as "unsaleable" by an agent about a year after it had already been sold.

The issue of whether John McCain's campaign workers did a great or lousy thing by sharing so many inside stories about Sarah Palin — and sharing stories in particular that cast her in a negative light — apparently provokes heated discussion.

This does not address the savings needs of most of the population.Now, I have always thought Social Security did a pretty lousy job by being both an insurance and a welfare system.

Otherwise, waiving the hearing and losing a chance to cross-examine witnesses and perhaps establish some inconsistencies in their testimony "was a lousy tactic" by Amendola, said Wes Oliver, an associate professor of law at Widener University in Harrisburg, Pa.

There is no doubt that FGW is an incompetent company which has been allowed to get away with a lousy service by the inflexible franchising system for too long.