Martha Beck

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

American Author

Tom Watson

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

American Golfer

Amy Waldman

Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

Tyne Daly

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

American Actress

Elizabeth Vargas

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.

American Journalist

Jon Taffer

You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.

American Businessman

Andrew Ross Sorkin

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

Peter Gallagher

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

American Actor

John Mortimer

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.

English Novelist

Garrison Keillor

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

American Writer

Expresses dissatisfaction, often used to emphasize personal feelings about bad experiences.

Negative Emotion

Can sound informal and slightly rude, so be cautious in polite or formal situations.

Slight Rudeness

Often used for exaggeration – things may not be as bad as the word 'lousy' suggests.

Hyperbole

Refers to a literal infestation, such as lice, though it's rarely used this way now.

Literal Infestation

While accurate, using 'lousy' for 'full of lice' might confuse as it's an old-fashioned use.

Outdated Usage

Implies an excessive, almost overwhelming amount of something.

Excessively Populated

Even when describing quantity, it often has a negative or unwanted connotation.

Negative Connotation

Can be used to describe an abundance in a hyperbolic or figurative sense.

Figurative Overflow

 gonna show you why Dilbert already knows of course you're reading the cartoon as I'm talking dogbert's tech-support how come eh I abuse you my printer prints a blank page after every document why would you complain about getting free paper freeze the other users giving my own paper egad man look at the quality of the free paper compared to your lousy

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 I'll give you a few examples. One is the rise toward communities and neighborhoods, and increased emphasis on your neighbors as your support system. Also, a wonderful by-product of a really lousy thing, which has been unemployment, is a rise in volunteerism that's been noted in our country.

John Gerzema: The...

 is this sort of collective unconscious where we are all the same we are all brothers or sisters that's beautiful that's great did you so you began life as a writer I think writing nonfiction well you were a journal well it was featuring in my case I was a lousy journalist okay so if I

Isabel Allende: A...

 below the killer proved that there were polar bears in the area we were getting close the ring seal love's in that hole underneath the stone that layer underneath yeah I'd make a lousy pour and so would you so how how long will it take him to do

Polar Bear: Arctic Apex...

 while I'm walking, while I'm cycling, I made a press, doses of blood will go there. That makes me bow down to any woman in front of me to give full respect. That five days I'll never forget -- the messy days, the lousy days, that wetness.

Arunachalam Muruganantham...

 It may seem ridiculous, but we have a really lousy history of anticipating things like this and actually being prepared for them. How much energy and money does it take to actually have a plan to negotiate with an advanced species?

Stephen Petranek: 10...

 and three women, and I was one of them. And I'm a lousy cook. I'm a really good navigator. I think the second most profound thought in my entire life "No man is ever going to allow me to be a navigator on their boat, ever."

Stop being a bystander...

 For the first time in human history, talented students don't have to have their potential and their dreams written out of history by lousy teachers. They can sit two feet in front of the world's finest.

Chris Anderson: How...

 first time in human history talented students don't have to have their potential in their dreams written out of history by lousy teachers they can sit two feet in front of the world's finest

 Rosen Franklin came up and sort of laughed at our model they said it was lousy and it was so we were told to build no more models we were incompetent and so we didn't build any models and

Lousy

Very bad or unpleasant.

Often appears as...

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Full of or infested with lice.

Often appears as...

A large amount of something.

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Negative Emotion

Slight Rudeness

Hyperbole

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