lousy

Julianne Moore can do anything, even play an actor so lousy she can’t even convincingly walk across the stage of her local community theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

During closing arguments, Reddington, Clancy's lawyer, said she had made numerous pleas for help before the killings but had received "lousy medical care" from the doctors she consulted.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

A key survey of American consumers is scraping bottom, showing they’ve never felt this lousy about the economy, even at the height of recessions or when the Covid pandemic raged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

If Switzerland plays lousy, then I’m going to be pissed, but I think they’ll do better than in the first game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

I wasn’t very good at arithmetic, but even I knew that this was a lousy deal.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

“What if she’d been a more single-minded journalist and a lousier friend?” he asked.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Some combination of the following: slower processors, less storage, and lousier cameras than flagship phones, almost across the board.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022

Like Holoborodko, he puts himself forward as a manager, hired by Ukraine to do a job that Vladimir Putin just made that much lousier.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

Few workers in America have a lousier reputation just now than truckers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

"Other than the BBC shutting down I cannot think of lousier media news," , who had written several columns for the magazine.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2012

But let’s give them praise because they have had the lousiest of weeks and they came out fighting.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

At least no catastrophic policies are enacted in Boys State, and even the lousiest players can claim youthful naiveté and inexperience as an excuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2020

Armstrong has finessed this trick throughout his writing and producing career, exploring how even at their lousiest, human beings are more relatable than many may want to believe.

From The Verge ● Oct. 11, 2019

Even in his lousiest pictures — “I made lots of low-budget movies,” he admitted — he’s a thing of beauty, a graceful, whirling dynamo.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

Lena only went because she’s a cheerleader, and she said it was the lousiest turnout she’d ever seen for a Condors-Raiders matchup.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman