lousy

Adjective

lousy (comparative lousier, superlative lousiest)

1. (colloquial) Insufficient and less than expected of a good thing.
   • I worked here all summer and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

   Synonyms:

   disagreeable, undesired, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid

2. (colloquial) Remarkably bad; of poor quality.
   • No offense, but his cooking is lousy.
   • Must have been a lousy school.2021 September 15, Unknown minister, Singapore Parliament debates on 15 September 2021

   Synonyms:

   disagreeable, undesired, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid

3. (colloquial) Dirty or untidy.
   • I cleaned the lousy garage.

   Synonyms:

   disagreeable, undesired, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid

4. (colloquial) Underhanded; mean; contemptible.
   • I've had enough of lousy backstabbing at this place.

   Synonyms:

   disagreeable, undesired, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid

5. (colloquial) Unwell; under the weather.
   • I caught a cold and I've been feeling lousy all week.

   Synonyms:

   bad, poorly, sick, ailing, crank, crook, green about the gills, icky, ill, indisposed

6. Infested with lice.

   Synonyms:

   licey

7. (colloquial, usually) Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).
   • The place was lousy with students.
   • The benignant influence crept like gas through the Row. […] And triangulation might possibly have located it in the Palace Flophouse and Grill. Certainly the Palace was lousy with it. Mack and the boys were charged. Jones was seen to leap from his chair only to do a quick tap dance and sit down...1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

   Synonyms:

   riddled, -ridden, inundated, jam-packed, teeming