Synonyms 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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   good, nice, clean

2. lousyadjective

   infested with lice

   "burned their lousy clothes"

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

   Antonyms:
   clean, good, nice

3. dirty, filthy, lousyadjective

   vile; despicable

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   good, clean, nice

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1. List of paraphrases for "lousy":

   miserable, rotten, bad, wretched, measly, ugly, pathetic

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1. Samuel Walker:

   What we have begun to learn in Chicago is they do a lousy job of investigating( those complaints), you can't use their bad performance as evidence to say the complaint was unfounded. The problems begin to compound each other.

2. W. C. Fields:

   Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

3. 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.

4. Lily Tomlin:

   Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

5. Kathay Feng:

   One of the upsides, even when Michael Li have a lousy commission, is that Michael Li have created enough of a record for Supreme Court to review and be able to create some alternative that is fair.