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LOUSY
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Irregular inflected forms: lousier , lousiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Infested with lice
Example:
burned their lousy clothes
Classified under:
Similar:
dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)
Derivation:
louse (wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals)
louse (wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds)
louse (any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants)
lousiness (infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very bad
Example:
it's a stinking world
Synonyms:
crappy; icky; lousy; rotten; shitty; stinking; stinky
Classified under:
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
lousiness (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Vile; despicable
Example:
a filthy traitor
Synonyms:
dirty; filthy; lousy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
awful; nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Derivation:
lousiness (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)
