lousy

Meaning

Adjective

  • Remarkably bad; of poor quality.
  • Dirty or untidy.
  • Underhanded; mean; contemptible.
  • Infested with lice.
  • Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).

Origin

  • From Middle English lousy, lowsy, lousi, equivalent to louse + -y.

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