How to Use lousy in a Sentence

lousy

adjective

• I like the work, but the pay is lousy.
• That's a lousy way to treat a friend.
• They did a lousy job.
• It's a lousy, rainy day.
• He drank too much and felt lousy the next morning.
• She got lousy grades in high school.
• He was a lousy husband.
• Wishing you some good days to make up for the lousy ones.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2023
• They're both seen as a lousy place to sink your spare cash.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2020
• Many fine books are full of that, and too many lousy books try to match it.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The second was pit road is a lousy place to try to talk to a driver.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2022
• Howard had lousy support on the first two goals but should have had the third one.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2020
• At least the rain provides one last chance to wash away the residue of the lost and lousy 2020 season.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• The past 15 years has been a lousy time to sell life insurance.
  — Leslie Scism, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• David Vélez set out to kill off the fat fees and lousy service of Brazil’s big banks.
  — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• On Monday night, a lousy start was once again the culprit.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• In a few more months, the Hamptons will be lousy with the new Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 May 2021
• The iron shot went into a lousy lie in the deep rough and started the bogey string.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• The road from Laredo to Austin is long and lousy with nothing much.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
• In many parts of the country, the weather outside is lousy.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 11 Jan. 2020
• The weather in Cleveland is lousy in the second half of the season.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2020
• And the pay is lousy -- not enough to live on even if you are employed four or five days a week.
  — cleveland, 14 Oct. 2020
• And one sale could make the difference between a good month and a lousy one.
  — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• We, as the serfs, only get left with a few lousy cabbages.
  — Don Tapscott, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• Can a company do founder mode if the founder is lousy—or lazy?
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• There were early signs things might be lousy at Levi’s.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
• Just a very good sequence there for New England, and a lousy one for the Lions.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• Shane’s mother is right: The place is lousy with pineapples.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2021
• In other words, the crested anoles won the turf war, and the browns moved to a more dangerous place with a lousy view.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
• Too many scenes are sweetened with lousy ADR gags, a real case of subtraction by addition.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025