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Antonyms for lousy
ˈlaʊ zilousy

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  1. icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinkyadjective

    very bad

    "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"

    Antonyms:
    good, nice, clean

    Synonyms:
    noisome, icky, malodorous, filthy, smelly, crappy, fetid, ill-smelling, malodourous, ill-scented, foetid, foul, rotten, unpleasant-smelling, stinky, decayed, dirty, rotted, gooey, stinking, shitty, foul-smelling, funky

  2. lousyadjective

    infested with lice

    "burned their lousy clothes"

    Antonyms:
    clean, good, nice

    Synonyms:
    stinking, shitty, icky, rotten, stinky, filthy, crappy, dirty

  3. dirty, filthy, lousyadjective

    vile; despicable

    "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"

    Antonyms:
    good, clean, nice

    Synonyms:
    soiled, cruddy, smutty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, stinky, dingy, crappy, filthy, cheating(a), nasty, stinking, unclean, rotten, shitty, pestiferous, marked-up, ill-gotten, foul, contaminating, sordid, icky, dirty, muddy, muddied

How to use lousy in a sentence?

  1. J. D. Salinger:

    If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

  2. Victor Gura:

    I was very frustrated -- I still am -- because for decades, we've been doing dialysis with big machines that prolong the life of the patient a little bit ... and in addition, they have a lousy quality of life.

  3. Gail Saltz:

    Children lack good judgment. They might do things that are lousy ideas, but seem good in the moment. Once the cat is out of the bag -- and the video is online -- there is not a whole lot you can do about it.

  4. Marla Margolis:

    This was simply beyond the pale, i was beyond livid. It's one thing to have a lousy customer service experience and have it end with the disconnection of the call. It's quite another for a call center rep to have taken the following steps to send me this message.

  5. Jack Ablin:

    The Fed is fixated on jobs and its ability to throttle inflation. Meanwhile unless we get a lousy jobs number tomorrow I think the Fed is going to be on the hook to explain themselves if they're not going to raise.

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