1 (informal) very bad
SYNAWFUL:
What lousy weather! * I've had a lousy day. * She felt lousy (= ill).
2 [onlybeforenoun] (informal) used to show that you feel annoyed or insulted because you do not think that sth is worth very much:
All she bought me was this lousy T-shirt. * He offered me a lousy ｣100 for it.
3 ~ with sth/sb (informal) having too much of sth or too many people:
This place is lousy with tourists in August.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lousy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lousy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lousy is tagged as adjective.
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