He was a lousy husband – cold, critical, philandering – and essentially abandoned his wife after 17 years of marriage.
This year the weather is lousy — drizzly and cold.
Plath refers to the acquaintance ungraciously in a journal entry dated February 13 , 1959— a day when, she admits, she had a "lousy green depressing cold": "Stanley Kunitz, his bright white Cambridge apartment with the blood-red burlap curtains and the violent depthless red-accented paintings of his New Greenwich Village wife, who called him: Uh-huh, uh-huh, bye honey.
It was cold and lousy, but I knew how to breathe.
Shorter days, cold weather, lousy produce: there's much to dislike about winter.
Having spent 30 years in the intelligence business, I fervently hope the food is lousy, the winter is cold, and the Internet access is awful.
Pumping in heat to counteract the draughts of cold air falling off lousy windows is a poor second best to a wall with a foot of insulation in it, even if that heat comes from solar panels on the roof.
"You know when you are physically feeling lousy and know it is more than a cold or the flu, but you don't know what it is?
We asked Lingxia Sun, a clinical dietitian at Johns Hopkins Hospital, what the best eating strategy is for anyone who's got a cold, the flu, or is just generally feeling lousy.
I've had a lousy century thus far, but I've got these recordings by Karen Dalton and she keeps me company in a cold, cold, cold, cold world.
