Sentence examples for was really lousy from inspiring English sources

But it was really lousy and the rewriting took nearly five months.

"We're even with last year, but the little asterisk in the footnotes is that last year was really lousy too," he said.

Compared with the electronics at the Auger, Whiteson says, "individual smartphones are really lousy detectors".

But if he doesn't, after 20 minutes of small talk, just say: "You were really lousy to me in high school.

"When the choice is between putting the commissioner in jail and putting kids in jail," she said, "obviously these are really lousy choices".

"It's really lousy," said Scott Rudin, a producer who has credits on "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men," both of which have been nominated for the Golden Globes' best drama award.

Go to an unfamiliar city, look up a promising restaurant and almost invariably there will be a sheaf of reviews celebrating the food, ambiance and service, and then a smaller group of commenters saying the enthusiastic reviewers have no idea what they are talking about and the place is really lousy.

"She's been really lousy in practice the last few days, but Svet told me before the game that T was going to have a great game because she's been so bad in practice," he said, referring to the former UConn star Svetlana Abrosimova, who is now an assistant coach for the Huskies.

(Or, as Globe & Mail columnist Steven Brunt said on Montreal radio this afternoon, "The Leafs' appeal is, 'Come play for us. We're really lousy and you'll get lots of ice-time.'") Hunter says Brunnstrom "has returned to Sweden to weigh the situation and will contact his agent, J.P. Barry, tomorrow with either a final answer or a list narrowed to two teams".

In reality, "people who are really lousy at something act as if they know what they are doing," says Simons.

Speaking about her discomfort with live performances, Stafford told a 1996 interview with The New Yorkers Nancy Franklin, "I'm basically a singer, period, and I think I'm really lousy up in front of an audienceit's just not me".