Wondering how to use Lousy in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as dirty or nasty.
Lousy in a sentence
Lousy meaning
- Remarkably bad; of poor quality.
- Dirty or untidy.
- Unwell; under the weather.
Synonyms of Lousy
Using Lousy
- The main meaning on this page is: Remarkably bad; of poor quality. | Dirty or untidy. | Unwell; under the weather.
- Useful related words include: dirty, nasty, filthy, unclean.
- In the example corpus, lousy often appears in combinations such as: for lousy, the lousy, and lousy.
Context around Lousy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lousy
- In this selection, "lousy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pretty, became, windy, soap, shave and father stand out and add context to how "lousy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a lousy soap makes and a pretty lousy father to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lousy" sits close to words such as abrasive, adjournment and amalgamation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lousy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Air India incident: Why do Indians make such lousy travellers? (10 words)
The 2020s have been a lousy decade in many ways. (10 words)
And Queen Nancy Pe-lousy was 3rd in line to the Presidency? (12 words)
Bambii is tired of paying for Ubers to north-side bars and clubs (which often enforce anti-Black door policies and charge too much for lousy drinks), so she’s been intentional about keeping the FiFi on the south side. (40 words)
Daily stress or a person’s capacity for an erection can affect one’s capacity to have orgasms during the sexual engagement, as well as one’s capacity for lousy sleep and unwise nutritional choices. (35 words)
Midsize trucks are back, and as much as we could argue that midsizers aren’t really back given their modern dimensions, there’s no denying that the U.S. market is lousy with new options. (35 words)
Air India incident: Why do Indians make such lousy travellers? (10 words)
And Queen Nancy Pe-lousy was 3rd in line to the Presidency? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
A lousy soap makes for a lousy shave, so choosing the right one is just as important as selecting a quality razor.
After her son split from his wife, he became a pretty lousy father to their kids.
Air India incident: Why do Indians make such lousy travellers?
And Queen Nancy Pe-lousy was 3rd in line to the Presidency?
As long as these lousy local companies remain unchallenged by world-class foreign players, Filipinos will never get the best of services,” the online user added.
Daily stress or a person’s capacity for an erection can affect one’s capacity to have orgasms during the sexual engagement, as well as one’s capacity for lousy sleep and unwise nutritional choices.
His predecessor, Joe Judge, wasn’t a lousy head coach for all of his two-year stay in the Meadowlands.
However, that lousy record probably is due in part to the right-hander’s surroundings, as the Royals entered Wednesday with the second-worst record in all of baseball.
It seems inconceivable to me that the most subtle, observant and relentlessly patient of artists would have produced such a lousy, lackadaisical image of a human face.
Midsize trucks are back, and as much as we could argue that midsizers aren’t really back given their modern dimensions, there’s no denying that the U.S. market is lousy with new options.
Spellcaster Sims can get the Curse of the Night Wraith in several ways: failing at a spell, brewing a lousy potion, or losing a duel.
The 2020s have been a lousy decade in many ways.
We’re shown Tistsipas’ press conference, in which he chastises his footwork as “lousy”; that’s not a word you hear often.
Yet, he didn't just kill him because the pay was lousy.
As interesting as these can be, they are lousy guides when it comes to compounding capital.
Bambii is tired of paying for Ubers to north-side bars and clubs (which often enforce anti-Black door policies and charge too much for lousy drinks), so she’s been intentional about keeping the FiFi on the south side.
Btw, I'd rather have a poor migrant with no to lousy English for a neighbor than some no good native born bigot.
But with American rights come American responsibilities, “responsibility” once being a buzzword of the Republican party, before they became lousy with grievance-grouping anarchists.
For a film with two Oscar winners (Rockwell, DeBose) and three nominees (Cranston, Grant, Jackson) to its name, what a lousy outcome.
It fascinated Dubin, who took Hansen’s advice and went fishing for trout on a “really windy, lousy, cloudy, rainy day,” and caught two.
Common combinations with lousy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- for lousy 5×
- the lousy 5×
- and lousy 5×
- lousy with 4×
- as lousy 4×
- pretty lousy 3×
- such lousy 3×
- lousy year 3×
- lousy at 3×
- lousy job 3×