Sentence examples for sort of lousy from inspiring English sources

But if I look at the track record, we've done a reasonably good job of convincing our friends not to develop nuclear weapons but we've done a sort of lousy job of convincing our potential adversaries not to have nuclear weapons.

As long ago as August 2007 he was worried that all sorts of lousy investments were lurking in GE's opaque finance division, GE Capital, and that "a gathering storm of liabilities will swarm the parent company".

I sort of agree.

Yerofeyev worked at a variety of lousy jobs around Moscow.

This is the original part of the inn: more turf fires, a black range, time-worn wooden chairs, the sort of place which turns lousy weather (or a sore throat) into an excuse to settle in for the duration.

Work culture that overvalues overwork is lousy for that sort of reimagining.

The 90s saw the rise of the celebrity novelist, and Hilary Winshaw, Michael's mournful editor tells him, has got in on the act with 'the usual sort of rubbish… Cheap tricks, mechanical plot, lousy dialogue, could have been written by a computer.

Plenty of lousy artists have profound convictions.

Uniforms of lousy fabric would literally fall apart in rain.

Response: Obviously, we would never propose that these families are homologous on the basis of "lousy" HHpred probability value.

Sort of like an all-you-can-eat buffet at a lousy restaurant.