LOUSY

adj. 1 awful, terrible, mean, contemptible, low, base, hateful, detestable, despicable, vile, wretched, miserable, scurvy, dirty, vicious, Colloq rotten Telling tales to the teacher was a lousy thing to do 2 bad, poor, awful, terrible, inferior; low-quality, shoddy, shabby, inferior, miserable, second-rate, wretched We had lousy seats for the theatre last week The dealer seems to have sold you a really lousy car. 3 pedicular, pediculous, Brit lice-infested, lice-ridden, US louse-infested, louse-ridden Even lice are lousy - they have their own parasites 4 lousy with. alive with, overloaded with, swarming with, teeming with, Colloq crawling with, knee-deep in In five minutes the place was lousy with cops