lousy
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The worst-case scenario isn’t as bad, but it’s still pretty lousy: 1.6% a year, or less than 40% total over 20 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Thursday was yet another example of domestic football being a lousy barometer of Celtic's capacity to win - or even draw - games in Europe.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
But its score was still a lousy 51.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
You were simply ordering from the lousy ones.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was a lousy night for flying, with low clouds and driving rain.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
A team with a lousy recent record - six defeats in seven - and an even lousier head-to-head with their hosts went after the game with a vengeance.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
“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
“And remember, the lousier you’re hitting, the more you’re thinking about hitting. You shouldn’t have a worry in the world. I’m telling you right now. You’re a hell of a player.”
From New York Times ● May 22, 2022
Few workers in America have a lousier reputation just now than truckers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
But let’s give them praise because they have had the lousiest of weeks and they came out fighting.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
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
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