The government's case got less lousy last week.
"It might help sales that the Giants are lousy this year".
The economy was lousy in 1982, and it's lousy today, at least for the people who appear in Springsteen songs.
This has been a lousy summer, I know, but all those clouds have left us with one silver lining.
— Jeff Gordinier Poetry Foundation: "It's been a lousy summer sucking us dry," writes Bruce Covey in a poem that might or might not be about chicken soup.
There followed a lousy Christmas season for high-street fixtures like Argos, a catalogue chain, Mothercare, a baby clothier, and Thorntons, a chocolate maker.
It may have been a good summer for trees, but for the tree salesman, it's shaping up as a lousy winter.
The team with the big ground and big reputation had a lousy 2016, and Sigi Schmid paid for his side's underachievement with his job.
It produced 2,703kW hours (kWh) in its second full year (to 5 April), only 1% lower than the 2,730 kWh it produced in the first year, and that in spite of a lousy 2008 summer.
Tebow then took over a lousy 2011 Broncos team, mid-season, and led them on an improbable run to the playoffs, where they defeated the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers before bowing out to Tom Brady's New England Patriots.
Imposture by Benjamin Markovits 234pp, Faber, £10.99 During the lousy summer of 1816, Byron was holed up in a villa overlooking Lake Geneva with his lover, Clare Clairmont, his friends Percy and Mary Shelley, and his 19-year-old doctor John Polidori.
