lousy
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Lousy penmanship didn’t stop me from becoming someone whose profession depends on shaping letters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
Lousy infrastructure, hefty taxes and tangled bureaucracy have long made shipping expensive in this continent-sized country.
From Reuters • May 30, 2018
Lousy as the public schools often are, urban parochial schools don’t always measure up, either.
From Time • Aug. 17, 2015
Lousy movie but happens more often in real life.
From Inc • Aug. 2, 2013
In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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