"lousy hand" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which you are at a disadvantage, or when something is not as good as it could be. For example, "Even with my lousy hand, I was still able to beat my opponent."
But that ignores the lousy hand that fate, and Mr Delors, dealt the Italian.
You get dealt a lousy hand; then, just when you think you're playing it fairly well, some joker comes along and raises the stakes to a deadly level.
As a former poker player, he knows when to throw away a lousy hand even if he is being bullied into folding.
At the time, he was deputy director of the C.I.A. under William Casey and admitted, in an earlier book, "From the Shadows," that, having been "dealt a lousy hand by the president and Congress, the Agency played it amazingly stupidly".
As usual, in Leonardland — and this aspect of his work has been undersung — the women, by instinct and by virtue of the lousy hand that society tends to deal them, outthink the men.
Inequality is a natural state, and people at the bottom of society should either resign themselves to their fate, or else revive themselves through a moral and spiritual reawakening (likely inspired by their betters) that will allow them to rise above the lousy hand dealt them by their brain power.
Like Louis Armstrong or Hank Williams or Elvis Presley before them, they were engaged in "taking the lousy hands they'd been dealt and dreaming them into music of great consequence".
Such lousy hand-eye coordination is just one of the many ways the clumsy and lovable character has endeared herself in the eyes of "Midwife" viewers.
And they've been handed a lousy deal".
You may think you got dealt a lousy genetic hand when it came to fat distribution, but what you might not know is that chronic fat around your midsection might be due to stress.
You offer me the following lousy deal: if the dart hits the board at its exact center, then you will charge me \$100; otherwise, no money will change hands.
