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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Donald Trump:

   You are going to fire your Democratic governor who has done a lousy job and send a great Republicanto the governors mansion.

4. Donald Trump:

   He has done such a lousy job as president, you're lucky I didn't run last time when Romney ran because you would have been a one-term president.

5. Jean Anouilh:

   It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.