lousy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lous=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

lousy, a. 

•  Infested with lice.  [1913 Webster]
•  Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.  [1913 Webster]

  "Such lousy learning as this is."
•  Very bad; as, to feel lousy; to do a lousy job.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lousy, adj. (lousier, lousiest)
1 infested with lice.
2 colloq. very bad; disgusting (also as a term of general disparagement).
3 colloq. (often foll. by with) well supplied, teeming (with).

Derivative

lousily adv. lousiness n.

THESAURUS

lousy

abominable, alive with, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beset, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, infamous, inferior, infested, lamentable, loathsome, low, low-quality, mean, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, pedicular, pediculous, pitiable, pitiful, plagued, poor, rank, ratty, ravaged, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, second-rate, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid, teeming, terrible, too bad, unclean, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched