loused
Ruined through carelessness
Loused appears almost exclusively in the phrase loused up, meaning ruined or bungled: He loused up the whole project.
The image is of lice infesting and spoiling something.
To louse up is to make a mess of things through incompetence or carelessness: Don't louse this up for me.
Poorly executed, spoiled
- bungledPerformed ineptly, failed
- messed upDisordered or badly handled
- fouled upMade errors that ruined
- wreckedUtterly destroyed
spoiled · sabotaged · blundered · fumbled · mishandled · screwed up · mucked up · mangled
Bloodsucking scalp insects
- nitsLice before hatching
- infestationPest takeover situation
- infestedOverrun by pests
- pediculosisInfestation of body lice
bloodsucking · ectoparasite · crawling · itchy · scratching · irritated · nit-picking · vermin
botched
Poorly executed, spoiled
- bungledPerformed ineptly, failed
- messed upDisordered or badly handled
- fouled upMade errors that ruined
wrecked · spoiled · sabotaged · blundered · fumbled · mishandled · screwed up · mucked up · mangled · damaged
lice
Bloodsucking scalp insects
- nitsLice before hatching
- infestationPest takeover situation
- infestedOverrun by pests
pediculosis · bloodsucking · ectoparasite · crawling · itchy · scratching · irritated · nit-picking · vermin · parasites
filthy
Thoroughly unclean
slovenly · unkempt · disheveled · seedy · sordid · wretched · shabby · decrepit · dilapidated · run-down
lousednailed
Secured with fasteners
aced · mastered · pulled off · succeeded · accomplished
- feeling lousyMildly sick or miserable
- louse upRuin through incompetence
- head louseParasitic scalp insect
- lousy withAbundantly supplied with
- wood louseTerrestrial isopod crustacean
- body louseClothing-inhabiting human parasite
lousy, louse, louse up, louses, delousing, delouse, delouses