lousy
Not at all good
Lousy originally meant infested with lice, but that sense has faded.
Now lousy almost always means bad, unpleasant, or of poor quality: a lousy movie, lousy weather, I feel lousy.
To be lousy with something is to have too much of it: The place was lousy with tourists.
Of poor craftsmanship
- inferiorOf lower rank
- substandardBelow required quality
- mediocreOf only moderate quality
- second-rateBelow acceptable standards
crummy · rotten · terrible · awful · dreadful · pathetic · worthless · deficient
Unwell or impressively cool
- illIn poor health
- under the weatherMildly sick or unwell
- queasyMildly sick to stomach
- nauseousFeeling urge to vomit
feverish · ailing · poorly · rotten · terrible · awful · wretched · miserable
Without practical value
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- terribleExtremely poor or distressing
- awfulExtremely bad quality
- patheticArousing scornful pity
poor · inept · unskilled · clumsy · bungling · ham-fisted · no-good · worthless
Decomposed or corrupt
- dirtyNot clean
- low-downInformal term for facts
- contemptibleDeserving strong disrespect
- despicableMorally worthless, beneath regard
nasty · shabby · underhanded · sneaky · cruel · unkind · stinking · scummy
shoddy
Of poor craftsmanship
- inferiorOf lower rank
- substandardBelow required quality
- mediocreOf only moderate quality
second-rate · crummy · rotten · terrible · awful · dreadful · pathetic · worthless · deficient · inadequate
sick
Unwell or impressively cool
- illIn poor health
- under the weatherMildly sick or unwell
- queasyMildly sick to stomach
nauseous · feverish · ailing · poorly · rotten · terrible · awful · wretched · miserable · weak
useless
Without practical value
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- terribleExtremely poor or distressing
- awfulExtremely bad quality
pathetic · poor · inept · unskilled · clumsy · bungling · ham-fisted · no-good · worthless · abysmal
rotten
Decomposed or corrupt
- dirtyNot clean
- low-downInformal term for facts
- contemptibleDeserving strong disrespect
despicable · nasty · shabby · underhanded · sneaky · cruel · unkind · stinking · scummy · vile
lice
Bloodsucking scalp insects
teeming · riddled · overrun · plagued · rife · pestilent · verminous · flea-bitten
- schlockschlock, schlocky, trash, junk, dreck
- inferiorinferior, substandard, second-rate, second-class, subpar
- animal-likeapish, apelike, avian, beastly, birdlike
- moral judgmentsgood, evil, wicked, virtuous, moral
- slang adjectivescool, awesome, dope, lit, sick
- Insect Traitssix-legged, winged, antennae, exoskeleton, segmented
- 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
louse, lousiest, louses, delousing, lousiness, lousier, lousily, delouse, deloused